How do I get this out without dying?

>>16238845
looks like there isn't much tension on the spring so you should be fine.

Just jack off the car and use a spring compressor if you're being a bitch

>>16238849
also, how the fuck did you manage that?

>>16238849
>Just jack off the car and use a spring compressor if you're being a bitch

If I lower it now, the shock will go god-knows-where...

>>16238859
then use a spring compressor. you can rent one at vatozone or o'reillys

>>16238854
the nut holding the shock in (dunno the English term) came loose on a trackday.

Cut it, cut it, cut it.

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It's creaking, lord help me now

Okay it's fine now, there really isn't any tension on it anymore. Like you said.

>>16238893
>joker-eating-popcorn.gif
Keep going

>>16238893
>angle grinder on the spring
>cut until you think it's almost breaking
>hit it with a hammer
if it doesn't break, cut some more (small increments) and keep banging with a hammer
post results

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>>16238849
>just jack off the car

There ain't much on a car that'll give me pause but coil springs scare the shit out of me. Fucking deathsprings, man.

>>16238859
>If I lower it now, the shock will go god-knows-where...


No, the shock will stay inside the spring.

Lower the fucker down, put a spring compressor or a ratchet strap on it, then raise it back up.

Just pull it out OP
Springs never hurt anyone

>unbolt wheel
>apply spring compressor
>unbolt arm
>remove

You have very little compression going on
and a spring compressor will just hold the spring and it may just pop an inch or so.

blowtorch to the spring until the metal gets hot enough to bend and take all the tension out. one of the great stories of the 70's my old man told me was about his buddy gary who had a falcon wagon and he used an oxy-acetylene torch to make his psrings collapse so the thing was dumped on its ass

>>16238893
nice wheels though, if you die can I cop em?

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>>16238915

>>16239481
>he's never disassembled an SKS
>he doesn't know that the bolt spring can come free at a million miles per hour if you're not careful

>>16238872
that does not look like a car that should be anywhere near a track.

>>16239520
People still do this pretty often.
Buddy of mine goes to school for automotives and a kid in class learned you could do this during suspensions class taught as "what not to do" so later that day he went to work, and took the red wrench to it

>>16241488
>slavshit

>>16240878
Sure, just look for a big fireball

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Here's the end result from yesterday. I improved the caster angle by using eccentric control arm bushings from the Z4M coupé and installed coilovers. Now I need shorter sway bar linkages.

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New bushings

>>16242806
Nice.