Installing Front Coil Springs & Struts on a Ford Fox Body #FairmontProject

35 thoughts on “Installing Front Coil Springs & Struts on a Ford Fox Body #FairmontProject”

1. Love the videos but you just gotta oil the jack squeak squeak is killing me! Lol!

2. Great video. Your floor jack makes horror movie noises.

3. I was waiting for the springs to come flying out the entire time.

4. But Eric.. that Jack though 💪😎👍😁🤣🤣🤔😜 just a couple squirts of white lithium grease Buddy please 🥺lol

5. I like how you show the real side of mechanics.." if it works.. I'm gonna do it!" Yessssss.. that's all we can do 💯💢😜😂🍀🥦🙏💪😎👍🦊🐎

6. Just wondering whether inserting the spring may have been easier without the strut in place? Or were you using the strut as leverage?
   BTW, thanks for that clip! I’m in the process of doing some work on a 1987 T-bird, and this architecture is pretty similar. Awesome job!

7. I was waiting for a Tim “ The Toolman” Taylor type accident…

8. Use maximum motorsports spring yooo next time

9. That kmember did not save you any weight if you are going to use coil springs

10. You should use a spring compressing tool that goes inside spring

11. Hard work, maybe its easy to use an car spring clip

12. Put the jack out of its misery😂 Dude I love your vids.

13. I am honestly surprised that we did not just watch your inadvertent suicide by suspension coil in this video.

14. @EricTheCarGuy I've got two magic words for you when it comes to suspension coil springs" spring compressor.

    A spring compressor that is properly used will:
    a: Save you time.
    b: SAVE YOUR LIFE.
    c: Or both.

    Not using a spring compressor with this job is quite literally asking for your head to be removed from your shoulders. You got lucky. With as long as you say you've been working on working on cars, shame on you for showing a (front) suspension assembly video such as this. There is never a time when you need to compress a suspension coil spring that you should not use the proper tool for this purpose. Unless you aren't particularly friendly with healthy living that is.

    I've been binging on the #FarimontProject videos of late. This is the first time I've felt this strongly about something you've shown your viewers. Some of the things you've said "I just learned this" have floored me considering how often you claim to have been "a mechanic" for dozens of years and your obvious age from many of your (Python!) references. Much of what you claim to "just now be learning" are things I learned before I entered (Jr.) high school (78 for Jr high, 80 for senior high) and consider pretty basic.

    You mention low profile tires. I learned how to do those on an ancient(by then) Coats 40-40 machine before I was 10, not the Rim Clamp (Coats RC-10/15 of my time) you show in your videos. Next we have you "balancing" the tires/wheels. Have you never heard of "difference splitting" when balancing? I was teaching this at Goodyear stores in the Bay Area when I was 18 in 1984. There is abso-frelling-lutely no reason to use more than one weight on either side of a tire Eric if you even have half a clue as to how to balance tires. Move the dang weight around and trim it/them to change its value.

    Hopefully I'll get to see you at SEMA this year and we can discuss these items in person. Maybe we can also talk about turning some of your videos into articles for me/us.

15. I know this is a really old video, but you did say something about some people adding suggestions. Any ways I had a family member that often used small ratchet straps to compress and to hold and move in place in tight areas. It worked well for him and he learned it from a racer. Maybe this could help someone out there.

16. Love that Fairmont, dude! The only new car I ever bought was a '78 Fairmont V8 2-door sedan. At 32,000 miles, I installed a '71 360 HP 429 from a Mercury Marquis Brougham along with the Merc C6 trans. Kept the factory 2.78:1 gears. FAST car! Not sure how quick I could have made it, because the stock tires were not good at all for traction below 15mph or so, which is probably what saved the differential gears…😁

17. Could you have put the shocks on last and used a ratchet strap under the control arm and through the strut tower to compress the spring?

18. Came here because I got mad when I damn near got the passenger side spring placed in my 68 Skylark resto project when I realized that I put the lower control arms on the wrong sides. In case you don't know some cars, like my A body, have the shock bolts inside the coil spring area which = extreme frustration and bloody knuckles

19. Three words. "Coil spring compressor"… like this one: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sealey-Coil-Spring-Compressor-Wishbone-Suspension-1000kg/264074947457?epid=1328142944&hash=item3d7c17eb81:g:JnQAAOSwUu5cCEbm:rk:45:pf:0

20. Shock not strut I'm a shock Nazi

21. my floor jack twin!

22. When I was watching this video, I caught myself chuckling, when you were struggling on the second spring. I feel your pain and have been through the same thing on all the Foxbodies I've worked on. I so badly wanted to throw a wrench or pry bar for you. I use a through the center spring compressor when I do these, but it's a real pain to get the hook end back out from inside the spring as the hole in the lca is too small. Awesome project by the way.

23. You know maximum motorsports sells a divise to make that job easier, it took me alot les when i used it

24. Maximum motor sports has a tool called MMT-8 ( front spring installation tool) it would’ve saved you that headache .

25. Not sure if this tool would have worked with the aftermarket LCA's. https://lmr.com/item/MM-MMT8/Maximum-Motorsports-79-04-Mustang-Front-Spring-Installation-Tool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2XRgL_mp5g

26. I don't know if some one allready said it but they call it spring tentioners. It compress the coil so that you can easly install it with out all the hard work that you have put in. If some one allready said it sorry. But I do like your video's and are very learnative.

27. What brand k member is that?

28. Why did you just compress the spring with clamps ?

29. "It is harder than it looks", said everybody ever (ROFL)!!! Great video Eric.

30. Had me on edge…good job Eric 💪🏽

31. 17:35
    Eric suggesting placed Wheel chock (or chocks) wedged on the rotating handle given you a lift height and may prevent accidental movement

32. Ratchet straps dude.

33. the spindles you used are for a wider track car. the strut angle is different and the ball joint shaft is of a larger diameter. use 94-95 control arms. I learned the hard way when I installed 95 get suspension on my 93 hatch. it will give you about 1.5 to 2 inch wider front track.

34. that was very dangerous you should have tapped it in place with a hammer

35. Ever been in an airplane hangar, they set a short amount of chain in the cement so you can pull and push at the same time without fear of falling off the jacks. Just a thought

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