Front Coil Spring Removal using Floorjack

A 3min video of how to remove a front coil spring using a floorjack by Scott Harris. There's a lot of demand for this so I filmed the removal of my front suspension using only a floorjack to safely remove the front coil springs. There are other ways to do it including using a spring compressor but this way is safe and fast if done properly.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Coil
• Spring
• Removal
• using
• Floorjack

[cueball916]

using a balljoint tool? how do you figure?

[cueball916]

no. i was doing a spindle swap. you only need to pop the lower bj to get the spring out.  you can leave the brakes as is.

[VAroute66]

Great video. In the opening shot, why is there a gap between the nut and the spindle given that there is spring compression? Again, Great video.

V/R

Varoute66

[cueball916]

loosened the nut before using the pickle fork and just edited out all that to keep it short. you can remove the nut completelt and 99% of the time, the balljoint will not come loose even with the spring pressure. if it did, you would never need the picklefork.

[770Amphicar]

Great video. Would be really helpful to also show how you go about installing a new spring.

[VileMisanthropy]

Was I sapposed to unbolt the shock absorber first?? oh shit, please help lol :(

I'm working on my 79 firebird if that helps.

[juice72olds]

good video besides all the pop ups blocking the work being done to may words on the screen

[ozmedia]

A couple of good raps with a hammer on the knuckle around the ball joint, makes ball joint removal so much easier and doesn't trash the boot. It's SO easy that once you 'tap' one off you'll never pickle f'uck it again. You can break ball joints free all day without breakign a sweat or hammering your hand. Some people hold a hammer on one side and just tap the other and it pops apart, they are just press/friction fit, pickle forks are just a waste of time.

[adls08]

ok, If you leave the rotor on, will that cause any conflict? I just replaced Ball Joints and don't want to go through all that again...

[YourePrettyGoood]

Hey, thanks for the video first of all. But my Haynes manual says to put 3 spring compressors staggered at 120 degrees around the spring and compress it and then lower the control arm with a jack. Is this really necesary? There is no room to get 2 compressors in much less 3. What's your take on that?

[brtchida]

hey what is your opinion on spring clamps?? like one single clamp that only claps one coil to another. can they work??

[trayyy00cvrurface]

great way to destroy that lower ball joint..

[poolehart]

lol any other great suicide tips?

[alberta59]

Awesome how to video, I too use this method to change out springs. The only thing I would ad is that I run a safety chain through the top coil and over the top A frame as a precaution. I had a 77 Nova spring stick on me once and I thought the tension was all gone-it wasn't. Anybody doing these also need to have the car high enough like you have so that lower A frame can swing straight down. Good job, again!

[scaryman247]

Great video, but the words were blocking most of the video. I would have like to have seen what you were actually doing instead of looking so much at the words.