Re: Compressing front springs - '39 Coupe

Posted by Ozstatman On 2010/2/11 16:35:26

Bill,

To broadly answer your question, I've helped my friend Wade do this on his '39 110 Sedan '37 Super 8 Club Sedan and my '41 120 Coupe using spring compressors. Use a smaller sized bolt or rod to locate the under front cross member mid mounting point of the lower suspension arms and strong compressors, a floor jack may help too at times. It was just slow careful work, along with some persuasion on occasion. On both these cars the engines and bodies were still installed. If you're trying to do so on a bare frame I suppose there may not be enough weight on it to hold the structure down?

EDIT above - corrected car on which spring compressor used.