How should I insert preload spring?

93blkGTfun · 02-22-2003, 11:08 PM

My and a friend of mine are in the process of rebuilding his traclok and I'm not sure how to insert the s spring. Anybody have any tips? I'm hoping we can get it back together tomorrow.

88workcar · 02-23-2003, 07:07 AM

Been there- done that

I normally will get a 2x4 about 2' long, put the spring in between the spider gears set the 2x against it, then smoke the 2x with a good size hammer, once it gets started, you got it.

There may be a better way, but my car was built in the backyard.

bircky311 · 02-23-2003, 06:24 PM

everything I've read on em used some kind of something(like a 2X) and involved a large hammer. just be carefull not to lose the thing... I imagine it could take off like a rocket if it was halfway in and got tapped the wrong way.

93blkGTfun · 02-23-2003, 11:38 PM

Thanks for your help guys. I put the spring in a vise and put a hose clamp on it to keep it compressed. We hammered it in and then cut the clamp off. Worked like a charm. The rearend runs like a champ.

02-22-2003, 11:08 PM	#1
93blkGTfun Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Evansville, IN Posts: 98	How should I insert preload spring? My and a friend of mine are in the process of rebuilding his traclok and I'm not sure how to insert the s spring. Anybody have any tips? I'm hoping we can get it back together tomorrow.

02-23-2003, 07:07 AM	#2
88workcar Registered Member Join Date: Oct 1999 Location: Pierre Part, La. U.S.A. Posts: 1,850	Been there- done that I normally will get a 2x4 about 2' long, put the spring in between the spider gears set the 2x against it, then smoke the 2x with a good size hammer, once it gets started, you got it. There may be a better way, but my car was built in the backyard. __________________ 88workcar 1988 Mustang LX 342. 417rwhp @ 6800. 28 X 10 ET Drag, 4.30s, 10.69 @ 126.43 1.42 60ft. 11.13 @ 127.7 on BFGs 1.72 60ft Rice Hater # 42 To be old and wise, You must first be young and stupid I'm somewhere in tthe middle.

02-23-2003, 06:24 PM	#3
bircky311 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Butler, PA Posts: 19	everything I've read on em used some kind of something(like a 2X) and involved a large hammer. just be carefull not to lose the thing... I imagine it could take off like a rocket if it was halfway in and got tapped the wrong way. __________________ '89 Grand Marquis. Soon to have HO conversion and 3.27s on a trac lok diff "Hot rodding a Grand Marquis is a little like making bourbon out of Geritol." said by John Phillips about the Mercury Marauder. Car and Driver, July 2002.

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02-23-2003, 11:38 PM	#4
93blkGTfun Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Evansville, IN Posts: 98	Thanks for your help guys. I put the spring in a vise and put a hose clamp on it to keep it compressed. We hammered it in and then cut the clamp off. Worked like a charm. The rearend runs like a champ.