RE: Replacing Spider springs

[Gary Cerasoli <il_formaggio@domain.elided>]

Alfisti,
I also experimented with placing a thick piece of aluminum I had laying around under the spring pan and drilling 4 holes in it with the threaded rods going through it also. It seems to make the process more stable and much easier to get at the nuts on the bottom. A Craftsman ratcheting wrench is a big plus to have on hand also.
Gary Cerasoli
'86 Veloce
 Simon Body wrote:Folks

Brian is absolutely correct (as always). The **technique of choice** is the 
original Alfa tool.
It seems as though the tool is hard to come by since so many people came up 
with the work-around.
Is there a source for these and other Alfa tools?
Regards

Simon
PS. FYI, Brian is the 2004 AROC Conference organizer and is doing a superb job.




At 12:02 AM 9/29/2002, Brian Shorey wrote:
> > Thank you all very much for your advice. The advice was almost
>identical,
> > indicating that 3/8 rod is the technique of choice. Everyone advised
> > caution with any technique because of the pressure on the front
>springs.
> > For the record, Russ's advice is in digest 1167.
> > Many many thanks for the camaraderie.
>
>I'd beg to differ.
>
>The factory tool is the tool of choice.
>
>While I don't think Simons Spider falls into this category, I
>encountered a front spring situation today that threaded rod won't
>protect you from.
>
>I'm in the middle of taking apart a badly rusted '74 Spider parts car.
>The spring pan on one side was pretty badly rusted. Normally you'd
>remove two of the bolts, then install the factory tool, in this case I
>felt kind of uneasy with the situation, so I removed one bolt, threaded
>one side of the factory tool into it, and hooked the other side onto the
>lower a-arm.
>
>The factory tool uses a 4" - 5" pad to compress against the bottom of
>the spring pan, I snugged it up.
>
>Good thing - as soon as I started removing the opposite bolt the spring
>pan let go.
>
>Threaded rod ain't going to protect you from that. If you don't have
>access to the factory tool, and your spring pan looks compromised or
>rusted, then you should consider supplementing the threaded rods with
>some spring compressors, or maybe drill a piece of metal plate to sit
>across the bottom of the pan and supplement the threaded rod.
>
>Work safe folks - those springs carry a *lot* of energy!
>
>bs
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