A box showed up today from 914Rubber- thanks!

In the box were new trunk hinge rollers, but I had no way of pushing down the spring in such a way that I wanted to stick my fingers in there to get the old off & new back on.

So I made a tool. Sorry if this has been invented 50 times already, but I thought I'd share my solution. It's made out of a 16" piece of left over metal shelving vertical (Elfa I think).

Pics below: you come at it from inside the trunk, hook the two slots over the spring bat (making sure you are locked on at the short straight section before the final bend). Then lift up to bend the spring away.

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Wow- huge pictures- not sure how to make them smaller from my phone.

Good idea. What did you use to cut the slots?

I cut two slots with hacksaw- then bent/broke the tabs. I wasn't sure this would work, so didn't spend a lot time on design or execution.

So how did it work ?

Worked great! Just have to make sure the two slits are on the straight section of the spring. If not, it slips around the corner and doesn't lock on.