There are a few contemporary Threads involving struggles with conducting Lower Suspension Repairs that this Video will compliment. Sometimes ... The Wisdom from Watching these things is that the VOPs (Video Original Posters) are HONEST enough to tell you when they make Major Mistakes ( ...or Sustain Serious Injuries) during dis-assembly that can create other, more complicated problems... or extend the time, the labor and the cost and difficulty of locating additional repair components. Those aspects may be the most valuable "Not-By-The-Book" Lessons to be had from such intimate,'Sine Qua Non' Repair Movies:
Safety Issue:
If you focus on the Video from about 09:40 and onwards... You'll notice that due to the deplorable outcome of having Replaceable Steel and Iron Components such as the Left and Right Front Struts left in place TOO LONG... A Time Bomb waits in hiding.
You can see that at some point during the VOP's Repair... The Compressed Spring suddenly let go after the Strut Spring Support Plate had Rusted Through enough to Completely Fail... Probably while the VOP was Beating the Hell out of the Upper Pinch Bolt Cast Iron Bracket holding in the Lower end of the McPherson Strut inserted inside of it while trying to separate them. He finally gave up trying after this Spring Expansion occurred.
If this had happened while his hand was holding that lower Strut Tube... the chance for having his hand and fingers broken... or worse yet...winding up getting completely Trapped in between that Slipped Spring Plate and the Suspension Hardware is a very real and substantial Risk.
There are enough threads at GMTN covering how truly Dangerous the Power is once these Strut Springs get completely Compressed prior to the installation of McPherson Struts to convince most people to Beware the Damned Things. THIS situation should be added to that Cautionary Advisory for vehicles that exist under Rust Belt or Heavy Flooding Conditions when performing this LCAB (Lower Control Arm Bracket) Repair.
If you want More Information and confirmation of how serious this problem can get... Visit THIS Link:
Safety Issue:
If you focus on the Video from about 09:40 and onwards... You'll notice that due to the deplorable outcome of having Replaceable Steel and Iron Components such as the Left and Right Front Struts left in place TOO LONG... A Time Bomb waits in hiding.
You can see that at some point during the VOP's Repair... The Compressed Spring suddenly let go after the Strut Spring Support Plate had Rusted Through enough to Completely Fail... Probably while the VOP was Beating the Hell out of the Upper Pinch Bolt Cast Iron Bracket holding in the Lower end of the McPherson Strut inserted inside of it while trying to separate them. He finally gave up trying after this Spring Expansion occurred.
If this had happened while his hand was holding that lower Strut Tube... the chance for having his hand and fingers broken... or worse yet...winding up getting completely Trapped in between that Slipped Spring Plate and the Suspension Hardware is a very real and substantial Risk.
There are enough threads at GMTN covering how truly Dangerous the Power is once these Strut Springs get completely Compressed prior to the installation of McPherson Struts to convince most people to Beware the Damned Things. THIS situation should be added to that Cautionary Advisory for vehicles that exist under Rust Belt or Heavy Flooding Conditions when performing this LCAB (Lower Control Arm Bracket) Repair.
If you want More Information and confirmation of how serious this problem can get... Visit THIS Link:
Strut Spring Compressors
The local stores here no longer loan out spring compressors (liability?) so it looks like I'll have to buy a set. I've narrowed it down to two styles...
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