Originally Posted by
ADRONICUS
A shop that cares about how they do shit will often have a spring compressor that squashes it down and un does the nut from the shaft. The manual back yard garage way is to compress it yourself w/spring compressors, hold the shaft w/the right size open end wrench or allen key while you spin the nut off. I am willing to bet that the place you allowed to lower you car held the shaft in place w/some vice grips to keep it from spinning while they un-did the nut. That in turn burred the shaft and cut the strut seal.
Thanks mang, good info, usable when I go in to talk to them, and no lecture about how I shoulda done it myself!
They have a spring compressor mounted on a wall. They put the spring and shock in and spin a wheel on top that compresses the spring. They used an allen key socket into the top of the shaft to uninstall/install the nut. I watched them do it on another one. But they had some guys there who had no idea what they were doing, the threads of the shafts are all messed up.