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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: murraymint on 29 March 2013, 17:49
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Right, this has come up many times on here and I was fitting coilovers today so I thort I'd video me doing it so people could see what happens. If you do have spring compressors, use them! this videos just shows what happens without them.
http://i1106.photobucket.com/albums/h364/murrayminf/MOV_0155_zps2bc96db7.mp4
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Tweed will be all over this later.... :grin:
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Well I think what happens sort of comes with the name of spring compressors....They compress the spring to take the pressure off....
Anyone undoing them without the compressors is not thinking straight.
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Really?? What's next? fuelling you car with a fag in your hand?? :huh:
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Really?? What's next? fuelling you car with a fag in your hand?? :huh:
hey I saw someone empty a knackered fuel tank into jerry cans while he was puffing away on a ciggy! How the fooker not got wasted beats me?
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This is a great thread,i will see if I can find my weld the fuel tank and explode vid :grin:
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Not recommending it, just saying its not gunna kill you
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Stupid idea and not really worth the risk or time saved :sad:
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Stupid idea and not really worth the risk or time saved :sad:
Not recommending it, just saying its not gunna kill you
:whistle:
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No comment. :lipsrsealed: :grin:
And to be fair front is not as bad as that.
I've learnt to not recommend anyone to do that or give that as advise.
But for me I will always do it that way.
P.S you didn't put enough of your weight on the spring. Put foot up top end of spring, so when it unloads the spring pushes the shock.
But this is a good video! Now everyone can make up there own mind.
I can't see anyone getting hurt if you do it like that.
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Not recommending it, just saying its not gunna kill you
The spring compression might not be much on the Golf, but its difficult (impossible) to judge.
I worked in the motor trade for a good few years, and I'd never advocate releasing top mounts without using compressors. It might look like the risk of harm isn't that great, but it doesn't take a lot to go wrong and you've lost an eye or worse.
Anything that is compressed needs handling with care - springs, air, whatever.
A set of compressors isn't a lot of money at all compared to even the slightest risk of losing your sight!
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We are just talking about mk3 springs here and lets face it...if your undoing the top nut with your face in front of it and you lose an eye......you shouldn't be allowed anywhere near machinery.
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We are just talking about mk3 springs here and lets face it...if your undoing the top nut with your face in front of it and you lose an eye......you shouldn't be allowed anywhere near machinery.
Exactly!
Oh and a fag will not burn petrol. It's never going to be hot enough. Proven fact!
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We are just talking about mk3 springs here and lets face it...if your undoing the top nut with your face in front of it and you lose an eye......you shouldn't be allowed anywhere near machinery.
Exactly!
Oh and a fag will not burn petrol. It's never going to be hot enough. Proven fact!
:afro:
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We are just talking about mk3 springs here and lets face it...if your undoing the top nut with your face in front of it and you lose an eye......you shouldn't be allowed anywhere near machinery.
Exactly!
Oh and a fag will not burn petrol. It's never going to be hot enough. Proven fact!
It will ignite the vapours though....
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I pretty much craped my pants when we droped the fuel tank on a car to test the fuel pick up pump the guy was testing it with a probe tester and touched the wires together and it sparked guess we was lucky
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We are just talking about mk3 springs here and lets face it...if your undoing the top nut with your face in front of it and you lose an eye......you shouldn't be allowed anywhere near machinery.
Exactly!
Oh and a fag will not burn petrol. It's never going to be hot enough. Proven fact!
It will ignite the vapours though....
No it won't. I know for fact and wouldn't say if I wasn't 100% sure
A fag is not a spark and a fag is never hot enough to ignite.
By the way it's only the vapour that burns.
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Good old youtube. I knew the yanks would try it.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PUtqcxlIDXg (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PUtqcxlIDXg)
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C1RMrh9Lf1I (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C1RMrh9Lf1I)
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Lighting a fag with a flame next to a open tank of petrol is stupid, but then that's fire and not the cigarette
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Good old youtube. I knew the yanks would try it.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PUtqcxlIDXg (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PUtqcxlIDXg)
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C1RMrh9Lf1I (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C1RMrh9Lf1I)
I think Mythbusters have been there and done that.
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We are just talking about mk3 springs here and lets face it...if your undoing the top nut with your face in front of it and you lose an eye......you shouldn't be allowed anywhere near machinery.
Exactly!
Oh and a fag will not burn petrol. It's never going to be hot enough. Proven fact!
It will ignite the vapours though....
No it won't. I know for fact and wouldn't say if I wasn't 100% sure
A fag is not a spark and a fag is never hot enough to ignite.
By the way it's only the vapour that burns.
I know..i have an ADR licence and a lit cigarette will easily ignite the vapours from petrol.
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We are just talking about mk3 springs here and lets face it...if your undoing the top nut with your face in front of it and you lose an eye......you shouldn't be allowed anywhere near machinery.
Exactly!
Oh and a fag will not burn petrol. It's never going to be hot enough. Proven fact!
It will ignite the vapours though....
No it won't. I know for fact and wouldn't say if I wasn't 100% sure
A fag is not a spark and a fag is never hot enough to ignite.
By the way it's only the vapour that burns.
I know..i have an ADR licence and a lit cigarette will easily ignite the vapours from petrol.
What science do you have to back this up? I really can't be arsed to prove your wrong but I will lol
I know it won't and I would like to know where your getting your information from?
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We are just talking about mk3 springs here and lets face it...if your undoing the top nut with your face in front of it and you lose an eye......you shouldn't be allowed anywhere near machinery.
Exactly!
Oh and a fag will not burn petrol. It's never going to be hot enough. Proven fact!
It will ignite the vapours though....
No it won't. I know for fact and wouldn't say if I wasn't 100% sure
A fag is not a spark and a fag is never hot enough to ignite.
By the way it's only the vapour that burns.
I know..i have an ADR licence and a lit cigarette will easily ignite the vapours from petrol.
What science do you have to back this up? I really can't be arsed to prove your wrong but I will lol
I know it won't and I would like to know where your getting your information from?
Do this...its really not worth the effort.
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:grin: :grin: I agree