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Originally Posted by AtomicLabMonkey
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Originally Posted by sperry
I've done some spring installs on Austin's mustang with him before. It was a bit of a PITA, but the WRX should be easier. All you gotta do is rent a spring compressor, and then go to town on it... put the car on jackstands, compress the stock spring, unbolt the strut, take the strut off, then reinstall with the new spring... but having never done it, I'm not sure how hard it'll be.
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Actually since I've learned more about my suspension and watched Mike Maier work on the car, you can take out the springs on my car without a spring compressor... you have to disconnect the swaybars and things from the control arms, but basically once you have the chassis on jackstands you can put a jack under the control arm and slowly lower it down until the spring is totally unloaded. Then you just work it out of the seat with your hands. He can take one out in like 10 minutes, as opposed to the whole weekend we spent doing it down in San Luis.  |
On a WRX, the spring is not compressed by the control arm.. it's compressed by the strut... The whole strut/spring assembly can come out of the car, still compressed. You could try to take off the top hat w/o compressing the spring, but when that last bolt comes off, the top hat'll prolly take your head off... BOINOINOINOING!!
Also, you'll never get a new spring on w/o compressing it IIRC.