HELP with MarkMc lift in-progress

[BowTide]

I'm sure it's something stupid and Y'all can flog me later as I'm sure this has been covered before.......
I don't have ANY of the shaft sticking through the front spacer to put the washer and nut on, do i need to compress the spring more????
It looks to be about 3/8 of an inch from flush now...

[ErikSS]

Yes. Compress the spring more. Be safe but compress away.

[BowTide]

Thanks man, these dang rinky dink spring compressors skeers me LOL

[BowTide]

I ended up having to compress it all the way down to where the safety pins stopped me.
Mods, please feel free to delete this thread if need be to keep the clutter out. THX

[BowTide]

When Mark says "mark the EXACT ORIENTATION of the outside of the strut" make DANG SURE ya do so or you're gonna be PISSED come reassembly time LOL

[fatherdeath]

I had 2 sets of cheap harbor freight spring compressors blow up on me like completely shatterted...i also thought getting the struts in and out of the yokes were a bit harder then i imagined

[Opeth]

The harbor freight strut tools are the incorrect set to compress our springs. They are for a macphearson style strut assembly.

[v7guy]

If you leave the shock yoke loose when you go to install the assembly you can spin the shock yoke on the shock to be inline. From there you can torque the shock yoke bolt. I generally compress the spring until the nut on the shock will easily thread on a few turns, then i tighten the nut and remove the spring compressors.

You'll also find that adding some washers to the shock shaft will help you get a little more down travel while helping to prevent topping out and ripping the threads off the shock.