22F is too cold to work on truck coil springs.

softdown
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Feels like 17F and there is snow on the ground. Working with cold steel as well - with the potential to break several bones in your hand. 

Mush as I needed to work on those coil springs - think I'll wait for warmer weather. Already had one coil spring compressor break. Got a new one that is eight times bigger. A monster. Overkill? How much are your hands worth. 
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  • BB.
    BB. Super Moderators, Administrators Posts: 33,634 admin
    #2
    What happened to a car jack under the wheel, jacking 3 tires off the ground, and using bailing wire to hold the spring compressed?

    -Bill  :p
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  • softdown
    softdown Solar Expert Posts: 3,925 ✭✭✭✭
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    Don't know about that. I did break one compressor that was fine for my old Fiat. Explorers have truck coils. Difficult for three reasons. Plus you have to super compress it to squeeze a big fat spacer in there. 
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    mcgivor Solar Expert Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2019 #4
    BB. said:
    What happened to a car jack under the wheel, jacking 3 tires off the ground, and using bailing wire to hold the spring compressed?

    -Bill  :p
    Knew a guy who had the nickname "Dent" because of a large dent in his forehead, how he got the dent was by using the bailing wire technique, unfortunately as he was removing the spring the wire snapped and the spring hit him in the forehead.
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  • softdown
    softdown Solar Expert Posts: 3,925 ✭✭✭✭
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    -3F at 9am. Winter hath arrived a couple days early. Hit 49F in the bedroom, a bit unusual. Spent $10 on propane already this fall season. 

    Dent was lucky to have survived that. Have never liked working with coil springs. That is why I bought among the biggest compressor: https://www.amazon.com/MILLION-PARTS-Universal-Interchangable-Compressor/dp/B06XNPVJC3/ref=sr_1_44?keywords=large+coil+spring+compressor&qid=1576772154&sr=8-44

    Got my 3/4 ton Dodge with 488 next. The springs are much larger than the large Explorer coils. Some springs are easy enough, truck coils are never easy.
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