A few more pics of my car...

[46Tbird]

I was told I was going to need air the first time to take the car apart from factory specs. How do you do it without compressing the springs small enough to make them fit in there?

Nope, the car itself is an effective spring compressor. And your new springs are short enough that you can fit the strut and strut mount together by hand without compressing the spring.

[talisman]

lol @ needing special tools to throw lowering springs on a Mustang.

[White_lightning]

lol @ needing special tools to throw lowering springs on a Mustang.

good thing that special group of tools posted in this thread and own mustangs

[Steve]

Nope, the car itself is an effective spring compressor. And your new springs are short enough that you can fit the strut and strut mount together by hand without compressing the spring.

Interesting.

lol @ needing special tools to throw lowering springs on a Mustang.

Yeah, wanting to do it with air rather than knuckle breakers is asking SO much.Thanks for your usual negative two cents worth. Perhaps it would be more constructive two use your vast superior car knowledge to educate others rather than going out of your way to be an asshole. Lol

[Steve]

good thing that special group of tools posted in this thread and own mustangs

He's fishing for friday drama, as usual. He is worse than a high school girl with all the drama. Lol

[White_lightning]

He's fishing for friday drama, as usual. He is worse than a high school girl with all the drama. Lol

i was going to say.. why not arm bar the spring into a compressed state.. come on.. you know it cant power out of it

[46Tbird]

http://www.mylrs.com/blogs/lrs/archive/2010/06/09/2011-mustang-gt-5-0-ford-racing-lowering-spring-installation.aspx

[Steve]

i was going to say.. why not arm bar the spring into a compressed state.. come on.. you know it cant power out of it

That never happened. It was computer generated.

[talisman]

Interesting.



Yeah, wanting to do it with air rather than knuckle breakers is asking SO much.Thanks for your usual negative two cents worth. Perhaps it would be more constructive two use your vast superior car knowledge to educate others rather than going out of your way to be an asshole. Lol

Jesus dude, don't blow a gasket. It's lowering springs, not an OHC head job.

[White_lightning]

Jesus dude, don't blow a gasket. It's lowering springs, not an OHC head job.

doesnt pep boys and Vato zone rent out spring compressors??

[talisman]

Why would you need a spring compressor?

[347Mike]

Why would you need a spring compressor?

To compress the spring, duh.

But no, how else do you get the spring out of the mount?

[Mark Preus]

Good looking car.

[Chili]

To compress the spring, duh.

But no, how else do you get the spring out of the mount?

Look at the link Danny posted.

I didn't need a spring compressor on my old mustang either, but impact wrench was useful in removing the strut bolt on those.

[VaderTT]

Remove top hat bolt, raise car, remove bottom strut bolts and shock, remove spring, repeat in rear (depending on how it's setup) Only difference in the rear is you have to take apart the trunk/lining and the shock/spring are 1 piece, but the shock will prevent the rear being low enough to squeeze the spring out. Now with spring compressors I've done it without loosening anything in the rear.

This is very general as I've never worked on any mustang never than an sn95 NE.