Finally got round to reseat the spring. Well, for starters I had to send off for compressors. On paper this is an easy straightforward job, well not exactly. Not much room in the front suspension wheel arch, not for attaching spring compressors anyway. I had to shorten them, hacksawed off seven inches in the end. They were only a tenner and this probably would be the only time I’d use them.
I’m a stickler for safety first, but it was not easy attaching the compressors properly. In the end I broke every safety rule regarding using these things. Tightening was little at a time, and when I finally got to the slack stage I was crapping myself in case things went bang. Eventually the spring went into place. Slackening off was an even slower event. All this at the side of the road, waiting for a knee operation and dodgy legs...