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MENUMENU
  • Home
  • Products
    • Leaf Springs
    • Coil Springs Mustang II Springs
    • Shocks
    • Attaching Parts And Hardware
    • Installation Kits
    • Leaf Spring Shackle Replacement Kits & Parts
  • Applications
    • We Manufacture Leaf & Coil Springs For...

    • Restorations
    • Resto-Mods
    • Street Rods
    • Modern Vehicles
    • Custom Design
    • Makes We Have Available Online

    • Allstate
    • American Motors
    • Buick
    • Cadillac
    • Chevrolet
    • Chrysler
    • DeSoto
    • Dodge
    • Edsel
    • Ford
    • Hudson
    • International
    • Kaiser-Frazer
    • LaSalle
    • Lincoln
    • Mercury
    • Nash
    • Oldsmobile
    • Plymouth
    • Pontiac
    • Rambler
    • Sterling
    • Studebaker
  • Spring Tech
    • Learn About Leaf & Coil Springs
      • Spring Tech Videos
      • Replacing Springs
      • Ride Height
      • Ride Quality
      • Custom Spring Design
      • Spring Manufacturing
      • Browse All Tech Questions
    • Spring Tech 101

      We have been manufacturing springs for American vehicles for over 80 years. Our process and expertise has been continuously refined and improved over the century and our Spring Tech section reflects some of that specialty knowledge.

      Browse our many articles, watch videos produced in partnership with AutoRestoMod, and learn all about your spring suspension here.

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Why We Don’t Pre-Band Coil Springs

Mike,

I need a new set of front springs for my car but I do not have any way of compressing them. Could you band them before shipping them to me?

Tony

Tony,

You are on the right track knowing that the front coils should be compressed before installing them. However there is a problem with what you request.

You did not say what your ride is but on the average front coil springs have a rate in and around 300 Lbs. per Inch. Most front coils have to be compressed between 2.5 and 3 Inches to install them. So when a coil is compressed enough to get it installed, it is packing somewhere around750 and 900 Lbs. of force. Should, somehow the banding ever come loose during shipping, someone could get very seriously injured with the sudden release of energy.

This energy also sometimes gets away from people who use a jack to install coils instead of a spring compressor. Some get away with it and some don’t. Make no mistake; Never Never Never use a jack to compress a spring. If anything slips or lets go, that spring won’t even notice the tiny bit of resistance it encounters as it removes your hand at the wrist, or worse.

Most auto parts stores will rent coil spring compressors, so take advantage of their service and save your extremities for other uses.

-Mike

Filed Under: Spring Manufacturing, Tech Question Tagged With: Coil Springs

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