[Craig K.]

I forgot how much fun it is changing stock, and installing near stock length springs.

Pulling out the original fronts was not too bad. I have been trying to put the new ones in, and have not been doing too well.

I got a spring compressor from Auto Zone, however the hook attachment will not pass through the LCA access hole, the hole is too small.

So I was going to split the outer tie rod joint to lower the LCA even furthur. Well my pickel fork I think is for a ball joint, and doesn't have as an agessive ramp compared to a tie rod pickel fork, so I can't split the joint.

Guess I will need to hit up Auto Zone again and see if they have some other stuff I can try.


On my '85 all of my springs were so short that I never had problems like this, man what a pain.

Anyone have any other ideas?