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(More customer reviews)This tool is not right for the job.
It is heavy making it hard to position in place according to the diagram in the owner's manual.
It is cumbersome, because you need more than two hands to position all four grips.As you go around, the grips you just hooked to the spring come undone.The safety pins too have a mind of their own and slide in and out at will regardless of the spring loaded chrome ball that is supposed to keep them in place.
It is dangerous because despite compressing the spring to the maximum the tool allows and according to the safety directionsthe coil was not completely compressed.When I removed the strut mounting bracket the coil sprang open.I did not expect that.Needless to say I had to make a quick trip to the local auto store to get an additional spring compressor kit of a different design.Otherwise I would not have been able to reassemble the struts.The coil was not compressed enough to clear the threaded shaft.As you line up the grips with much difficulty with the axis of the coil, the position slides out of alignment as you compress the coil.
To sum up, It took me 45 minutes to take apart both struts out the car, 4 hours to replace the struts that entailed compressing the coils, and another 45 minutes to put the new struts back in the car.
Do yourselves a favor, if you do not want to spend 4 hours compressing and changing the coils over to the new struts, you need to get a different tool.It should have taken me no more than an hour to compress both coils and re-assemble them on the new struts.This design uses a 2 point approach.In hindsight the only way to do this right, is to use a 3 point design.That is the only way to compress a coil safely and properly without having any of the safety and slipage issues I encountered.
I did the work on a Honda Odyssey, and this tool alone will not compress the coil sufficiently to disassemble and re-assemble the struts using an 8" maximum opening according to the directions and closing the tool to the maximum allowed ( with safety spacer in place).
I would not even lend this tool to a friend or a neighbor.
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Product Description:
This New High Quality tool is needed to repair or replace a wide variety of McPherson automobile struts and is much safer, faster and easier to use then those "other types".This is a big heavy-duty tool. It is 16 inches long and made of 3/8-inch thick heavy steel. The center threaded bolt is ? X 13 inches. This tool is ideal for daily use in dealerships, service stations, body shops, tire shops or wherever and whenever needed. This tool pays for itself with its first uses.This tool will work on struts with springs up to 7 inches in diameter and the jaws open to 8 inches. Includes safety-locking pins and safety ring. This tool is new and in factory packaging and comes with instructions.
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