Originally Posted by thaveen
my buddy (skelly_gsr) and i have put springs and struts on a few times and have never used a spring compressor, if you know what youre doing you dont need one
If your working with Stock springs I would love to see how you have put them back on without a spring compressor, I have taken them off without but only when I was putting threaded bodies or lowering springs on, which meant I did not have to compress the spring at all to get the top hap to screew onto the tread.
The tool you needed is the strut spring comporessor, even though we have shocks that strut spring compressor is designed to work with cars with coil over springs.