Can anyone give me a step by step guide to changing mondeo front coil springs?

1999 2.0lx

Do you need to take the allen key screw out of the strut mounting nut completley.....any one got any tips?....im doing my best with a haynes manual.

 

By the alan key screw, do you mean the one inside the threaded bar, down the center of the strut?

If so, no. Hold that with a ratchet and crack off the nut on the threaded part, wind that down the thread and remove the cup at the top of the spring and anything else with it.

By the way, if you don't have a spring compressor at this point, youre fucked.

 

Its always fun undoing that nut and watching the spring fly off

never tried refitting it without a spring compressor though

 

i have spring compressors.......anyone got an opinion on this?:

https://passionford.com/forum/viewto...880785#3880785

 

I was kind of hoping he read the entire post before following it

 

dont seem to be able to compress the new spring enough to get it all back together.

anyone help?

 

You sure they are right springs then?

 

How many coils do you have the spring compressor on?

Put it on as many as possible.

 

they only reach over 3 springs.....id have been ok if i had a couple of pairs of compressors....could have clamped them down as far as possible and then used second set to take them down....anyway.....found a gargage that put the new springs on with a hydrolic compressor £30 for the pair so im happy....still saved a fortune. only 1 side left to do then its ready for its re-mot on saturday.

cheers for you replies.