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Your cart is empty.Broad spring contact. Acme threaded rod. Built in detent pins to help lock the coil in place. Designed to compress most sizes of MacPherson Strut Springs. Allows quick compression of the coil spring to replace the shock absorber or spring set. Also allows for repairs on bent struts, strut tubes and damaged pieces. Forged construction for repetitive use.
W. L. Morgan
Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2016
These spring compressors will get the job done, but they have a lot of room for improvement.For one, the "fingers" that clamp onto the spring coils are too short, so you wind up with the bolt head being too close to the spring to fit a socket onto. You end up loosening and tightening one side and then the other to get clearance or else using an end wrench for an eternity of turning.Another problem is the bulkiness of the fingers. On a progressively-wound coil spring they simply won't fit between the closely-spaced coils, so you have to shorten up and just fit it to the lower, wider-spaced portion of the spring. Might not work for some applications. And of course there are only two, when you really should have three on a spring, but I knew this going in.For all that they are sturdy, and the locking pins are a nice touch Makes you feel a little safer with all that stored-up energy straining to remove your head or other appendage.As with all of these type of spring compressors it helps to clamp some locking pliers (Vise-Grips) onto the coils to keep the compressors from walking downhill and ending up next to each other.
M. Weisdorfer
Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2016
If you are looking for a set of quality spring compressors and are not too expensive, look no more. These are heavy duty and well bullt. You really get that sense about them upon opening the package and handling them , I used them on a struts for a bmw e90 3-series. No issues what so ever. I felt very safe using them. Yes, you could rent an item like this at your local Autozone, but why take the chance. It may or may not work especially when your talking about compressing springs and your saftey is involved. I'd rather buy an item that is brand new than rent one that is dont know how old it is when my personal safety is on the line.
Nicole
Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2015
Barely got the job done and with a considerable amount of fussing and risk taking, on the part of this tool. The grabbing heads were too small for the gauge of coil and wouldn't sit on the coils properly. They barely fit on my stock 2006 Tacoma springs and fit even worse on the new Old Man Emu springs I was putting in the truck. As a result, in both cases the safety pins could not be engaged and with the larger Emu springs, the compressors ended up sliding around the spring radius and drifting closer and closer to one another, overloading one side. Most annoying, was that once we finally got the first new spring compressed on the 4th try and slid the shock into the mount on the truck, we couldn't get them off as the springs had pinched one of the heads between two coil loops. We ended up having to take the whole thing out, recompress everything more and then were able to get it off. All in all with my passenger side strut, we had to compress, decompress and try again 6 times before giving up on installing the strut and had to drop the ball joint and slide the new shocks in while uncompressed. The tool was able to compress the springs to where we could put the new top caps on but every part of it was shady and scary. Given my experience, I think this tool would likely be just fine for a small car, like a civic or a corolla or something like that. Definitely not a tool I would use on my light truck springs again.
AKO California
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2015
I used these for a 1998 BMW 323is which is a relatively small car. They were solid and I didn't have any concerns that they were slipping or anywhere near the point of failure. It takes a big socket with an extension to fit the head, or a whole lot of of work with an adjustable wrench without a socket. It took tightening them very close to all the way to get the spring compressed enough. That's because the ends are fat to be strong so while one side can go right down to the end cover, the other side ended up on a part of the spring too close to the cover so it had to be put on the next ring down. So by the time it was loose enough that I could unscrew the assembly, the center of the spring was very compressed and the last ring extended on both ends. Three of these in a set would have probably have worked much better, though probably at 50% more cost, so I'll live with having the crank them down a lot.The sides do have to be tightened alternately in order to keep things relatively even. Early on, I cranked one side down too much and it put the other side at an angle so I couldn't get the socket on there. So had to back it off and do things more evenly.I'd feel comfortable using these on stronger springs, though I'm not sure what the limit would be as I don't have vehicles with larger springs to try out.
Joel G. Alabastro
Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2014
I can't use it because it is too small for my truck. There are no specifications for the maximum diameter of the coiled metal, not the the spring diameter, that the ends can hook up to. This should be included in the item description because the spring is only good for cars and very light truck, not Ford Expedition 2007 and similar trucks.
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