Front Spring removal

[biohazardbill]

I have a 66 frame and crossmember. No body no motor etc, pretty bare. With a body and motor etc there is enough weight for me to just set a jack underneath the lower a-arm bar and undo the ubolts with the frame on jack stands however I am worried that without all that weight that may spell disaster. I have a coil spring compressor but cant get it into the spring.

Any one have a safe way to do this?

[198plus]

Originally Posted by biohazardbill

I have a 66 frame and crossmember. No body no motor etc, pretty bare. With a body and motor etc there is enough weight for me to just set a jack underneath the lower a-arm bar and undo the ubolts with the frame on jack stands however I am worried that without all that weight that may spell disaster. I have a coil spring compressor but cant get it into the spring.

Any one have a safe way to do this?

I connect a chain around the top control arm and bottom of a jack.

[sandiego65]

It was probly really stupid but i had a complete front crossmember off the truck and was anxious to get it apart I just put rachet straps around the arms and stood on top of the crossmember and unbolted the u bolts while standing on it. All it did was give me a suttle pop up not enough to knock me off, i did both side then loosened the straps and it worked out good. It was like ollieing on a skate board haha. Im like 200 pounds by the way.
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[luvbowties]

Originally Posted by biohazardbill

I have a 66 frame and crossmember. No body no motor etc, pretty bare. With a body and motor etc there is enough weight for me to just set a jack underneath the lower a-arm bar and undo the ubolts with the frame on jack stands however I am worried that without all that weight that may spell disaster. I have a coil spring compressor but cant get it into the spring.

Any one have a safe way to do this?

This does not answer your question(s), but (1)why are you undoing u-bolts to remove front springs? And (2)are you planning to save your coil springs for some later use?

[biohazardbill]

I used the chain method above and it worked well.

Two ubolts hold the lower control arm on. Using a Jack to support the lower control arm bar is the easiest way I have found to remove the springs. Besides that I removed the whole assembly as I am putting on 73-87 arm setup so I would have had to remove them at some point anyway. Springs will be replaced with bags.

[luvbowties]

Originally Posted by biohazardbill

I used the chain method above and it worked well.

Two ubolts hold the lower control arm on. Using a Jack to support the lower control arm bar is the easiest way I have found to remove the springs. Besides that I removed the whole assembly as I am putting on 73-87 arm setup so I would have had to remove them at some point anyway. Springs will be replaced with bags.

My reason for question #2 was: why not torch the springs & remove all spring pressure/force?
Glad u got it done safely.