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trex
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Sat Jan 03, 2009 10:11 pm

SORRY Quick question my sport is lowerd 60mm all round
i want to put the original springs back in is this a job i could
do myself if so what do i do
thanks
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Sat Jan 03, 2009 10:13 pm

Rears are a piece of cake.

The fronts will need a spring compressor.
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Sat Jan 03, 2009 10:43 pm

how much would it cost roughly to pay to get it done
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About £25 a corner I guess?
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Sat Jan 03, 2009 10:47 pm

a nice one ill just pay so thanks anyway
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Sat Jan 03, 2009 10:48 pm

where abouts are you
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Sat Jan 03, 2009 10:51 pm

ireland dublin
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Sat Jan 03, 2009 11:06 pm

maxfield wrote:Rears are a piece of cake.

The fronts will need a spring compressor.
if i had the opposite question and asked i have a 325 sport and have standard springs and want to lower it, then i would still need compressors??!!!! ive done rear ones better always left it to my mates to do them 4 me!!
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Yes, you will still need spring compressor.

Have you ever seen a fully loaded spring slip? :eek: :eek: :eek:
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Sat Jan 03, 2009 11:12 pm

french spring are the worst ive had one slip out the compressors and tw4t me on the shin i did jump about and shout lots for an hour
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Sat Jan 03, 2009 11:37 pm

an easy job.wish you were a bit nearer :(
and i'd show you how it's done and what you need while doing it.
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maxfield wrote:Yes, you will still need spring compressor.

Have you ever seen a fully loaded spring slip? :eek: :eek: :eek:

Seen one slip out of the compressors and fly across the garage I used to work at and take a chunk out of the brick wall like a sledgehammer (was off the front of a 7.5 ton truck) 8O Just glad I wasn't in the firing line!



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i let one fly in my pup yrs off a billy'd up 2.8 capri leg...
savage.and v, dangerous. :twisted:
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no i havent seen it personally but my dad has told me its very dangerous!! haha, i like the fact of that!!! :D
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