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> Front trunk springs, Best way to get these things off?
Gint
post May 23 2003, 08:30 PM
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Anybody know a quick, easy or maybe even safe way to get these things off?

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Gint   Front trunk springs   May 23 2003, 08:30 PM
Aaron Cox   vise grips and a pair of gardening gloves....expam...   May 23 2003, 08:32 PM
Gint   Yeah, I thought of that, but then I thought of how...   May 23 2003, 08:34 PM
Aaron Cox   mine were sagging, so i moved 'em up to the fr...   May 23 2003, 08:38 PM
Gint   When I said scarring, I meant the springs. Vice g...   May 23 2003, 08:51 PM
Jeffs9146  
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  May 23 2003, 09:10 PM
Gint   It just seems a shame to go to all of this work an...   May 23 2003, 09:22 PM
madd_dogg_914   Maybe I am alone here, but I have removed the spri...   May 23 2003, 09:39 PM
Elliot Cannon   I made a tool kinda like the one Porsche uses. I ...   May 23 2003, 11:43 PM
Brad Roberts   Rope To pull them off. Gint, your big enough to p...   May 24 2003, 12:01 AM
Gint   I can't seem to get a good enough grip on them...   May 24 2003, 08:06 AM
rhodyguy   shackle and a coat hanger. the shackle makes for e...   May 24 2003, 08:26 AM
seanery   I did it by hand. Take off the gloves and you can ...   May 24 2003, 08:49 AM
!   I did the coat hanger trick....THEN replaced both ...   May 24 2003, 08:53 AM
Gint  
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  May 24 2003, 10:48 AM
Brad Roberts   I have had the coat hangers come apart on me.. and...   May 24 2003, 10:51 AM
tracks914   Learn from anothers experience...prop the hood fir...   May 24 2003, 01:20 PM
Aaron Cox   ductape on the vise grips will do the trick for yo...   May 24 2003, 04:57 PM
Gint   Without gloves on I pulled'em right off. That...   May 24 2003, 07:28 PM
Lawrence914-6  
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  May 25 2003, 07:45 AM
Gint   I got a few guys together at work and I made a dea...   May 25 2003, 08:27 AM
Brad Roberts   Ha ha.. The local parts place thinks I'm nuts...   May 25 2003, 10:56 AM
thinlie   What i did was use a crow bar hooked up to the sho...   May 25 2003, 04:30 PM


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