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Old 10-29-2004, 03:20 PM
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Default Putting 951 Springs in

I am putting my 951 Springs in my car tomorrow and I was wondering if I am going to need a spring compressor to do this or not.

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Old 10-29-2004, 03:25 PM
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Yes you will. Autozone rents them cheap and also sells them.

You will also need an offset box wrench (23mm? IIRC) for the top strut nut and a long 7mm allen wrench if the struts are the stock ones.
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It would be a lot easier to get the top nut off if you had an impact wrench.
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While an impact wrench may make every job easier, I have never had a problem with the offset wrench and allen wrench. Here is what the offset wrench looks like:



Sears has them:

http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/produ...id=00944368000

If he has the impact set up already, that's great. If not, the above is a perfectly fine alternative that I have used many times.



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