Spring installation.....spring compressor needed?
I've got a 96 accord ex that needs its struts replaced. I plan on installing some GR2's inside the stock springs....I am not lowering it at all.
A friend changed my struts 2 years ago with some autozone crappers and they need replacing again. He did all the work and I was a car/mechanic noob back then. The method he did was to take out the whole assembly, put on a spring compressor, and then take off the top nut.
It worked fine but I was wondering if you could leave the struts in the assembly in the car, undo the top 3 bolts in the engine bay, raise the car, and then undo the bolts holding everything in place in the wheel well. Is this possible? Does the stock setup come out easily?
If it possible, do you have to use a spring compressor to put it all back together or can you put it together while the car is still raised and just lower back to normal, tightening the bolts?