In the past 15 years, I've owned 2 Astros and one GMC Sonoma,. Total miles OVER 1,000,000 miles, as my Astro were used in my courier service in North California.
As you can imagine, the driver's door hinge on my Astros took a SEVERE beating, so I borrowed one of these spring compressors from a friend who owned a body shop.
This I did AFTER I made a jury-rig made of a bolt and washers with notches cut into the opposite sides of the two washer to enable a spring to be threaded through and tightened to squeeze the spring. It worked, but just barely.
When Pilgrim loaned me his compressor, the job went 'lickety-split.
Now I have my own compressor to fix my Sonoma door. I'm looking forward to a quick and eaqsy replacement of the bushings.
I rate this tool, a FOUR STAR rating!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Door Spring Compressor ToolProduct Description: Door Spring Compressor Tool to quickly and easily remove or install door springs.
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I looked around at several other places and this by far was the best price to be found.As far as the spring compressor it is pretty standard, and works fine.
These are the worst set of spring compressors I've ever used. They take up way to much space on the outside of the spring. Because the force is not centered over the screw or balanced, the spring clamps and slider bind up on the screw making it very difficult to get this thing back off of the springs. I used them to compress some 620 LB springs and the spring brackets bent as did the large screw itself. I had to pound the thing apart with a hammer.
Thank God for this tool, I wish I was aware of it ages ago. It made what used to be a three hour job, a 3 minute job.