Where to buy just plain coil springs?
12-20-15, 07:07 PM
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Where to buy just plain coil springs?
Nothing I've done on this car has been easy. Without you folks, I couldn't even get the door open.
Now for another question: where can I buy just...plain...springs?
I ran into one of those Death Before Dishonor bolts that wouldn't come out. Chewed up bolt extraction tools like a machine gunner taking out whole platoons of inadequate white-collar weekend mechanics. When at long last it came out (thanks, cutting wheel), I thought: heyyyy, this strut is kind of curvy. But not in a good way, you know? Turned out to be a broken coil spring.
And nobody sells coil springs. Not in anything other than a total quick-replacement package, and as easy as it was to replace the other side with spring compressors, I'm not up for that expense.
I'm calling junkyards tomorrow, but I already have junkyard springs--I've just been driving around on them. Is there another option?
Now for another question: where can I buy just...plain...springs?
I ran into one of those Death Before Dishonor bolts that wouldn't come out. Chewed up bolt extraction tools like a machine gunner taking out whole platoons of inadequate white-collar weekend mechanics. When at long last it came out (thanks, cutting wheel), I thought: heyyyy, this strut is kind of curvy. But not in a good way, you know? Turned out to be a broken coil spring.
And nobody sells coil springs. Not in anything other than a total quick-replacement package, and as easy as it was to replace the other side with spring compressors, I'm not up for that expense.
I'm calling junkyards tomorrow, but I already have junkyard springs--I've just been driving around on them. Is there another option?
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[QUOTE=RA40;9294601]I may be misunderstanding your post...
You have a set of springs already from the salvage yard? If you have rust concerns, a recycling yard in a non-snow region like CA, AZ, NM, Texas, Nevada...and have them shipped.[/QUOTE)
I was joking (I think). But that's an idea I never considered. Sourcing out of a desert state would probably work great.
You have a set of springs already from the salvage yard? If you have rust concerns, a recycling yard in a non-snow region like CA, AZ, NM, Texas, Nevada...and have them shipped.[/QUOTE)
I was joking (I think). But that's an idea I never considered. Sourcing out of a desert state would probably work great.
12-21-15, 12:41 PM
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Are you looking for stock springs? I have a set from a 2000 if that works for you, let me know. It had 88K miles on it when taken off. Just pay shipping and it is yours 
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