Re: Front spring install

From: R\\A Chapman (rchapman@iserv.net)
Date: Wed Jul 28 1999 - 22:04:40 EDT


let me know to this will be a first for me should be fun
powered by magnum v6/95 dakota ,slt ext,mtuny michigan
----- Original Message -----
From: <Jetmugg@aol.com>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 8:02 PM
Subject: DML: Front spring install

>
> It looks like I'll be doing an install on some taller coil springs for the
> front of my Dak within the next couple of weeks. Here's a question for
you
> guys who have done front end spring swaps - Will I need a coil spring
> compressor, or is there enough travel in the lower A-arm to use a
technique
> of putting the truck up on jackstands, then putting a floor jack under the
> A-arm, taking the balljoint loose, and then SLOOOOOWWWWWLY letting the
floor
> jact down to take the stress out of the spring? Oh, man, this is gonna be
> fun!.
>
> SteveM.
>



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