Been watching videos on people working on their struts. A common theme seems to be that struts are a PITA to take apart and are dangerous to boot, and that the common 'rent' tools that he chain auto parts stores stock don't work well with high-coil-count springs.
This got me thinking, I have a 20-ton hydraulic press. Is there any reason why I couldn't use it to compress the springs?
Here's what I have in mind:
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Lower the table. Use a length of pipe that will slip over both the shock-portion of the strut and the press-foot of the hydraulic press, so that the pipe can't cockeye too much on the press and will push up against the heavy horizontal crossbar. Seat the pipe against what would be the bottom of the upside-down lower spring seat, squishing the coil down against the upside-down top spring-seat, which is itself pushing against the press-table. Reach up from underneath in the gap in the table to thread the hardware on.
Any thoughts? Could bolt something across the front of the frame of the press to prevent an accident from flinging strut parts into one's face.
This got me thinking, I have a 20-ton hydraulic press. Is there any reason why I couldn't use it to compress the springs?
Here's what I have in mind:
Lower the table. Use a length of pipe that will slip over both the shock-portion of the strut and the press-foot of the hydraulic press, so that the pipe can't cockeye too much on the press and will push up against the heavy horizontal crossbar. Seat the pipe against what would be the bottom of the upside-down lower spring seat, squishing the coil down against the upside-down top spring-seat, which is itself pushing against the press-table. Reach up from underneath in the gap in the table to thread the hardware on.
Any thoughts? Could bolt something across the front of the frame of the press to prevent an accident from flinging strut parts into one's face.
