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Front coil over shocks

Discussion in '2nd Gen. Tacomas (2005-2015)' started by silver80surfer, May 18, 2015.

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May 18, 2015 at 6:35 PM

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Any way to just get the shock out without compressing the spring? Just need to replace the shocks. Tia

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkVLBOnAifc

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Would this method work with fox 2.5 coil over? I have new springs on the way and would like to do this myself.

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I'm going to try it out this weekend, I will let you know how it goes. I have compressed springs before and I dislike it a lot. So I will try this and see how it goes.

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I've done this method several times now, it's way easy. 885's on 5100's no problem.

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That's a pretty good method! Simple and relatively safe.

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886 springs with 1/2 in spacer on 5100's at 0 and no problems using this method

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