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Old 07-12-2011, 05:32 PM   #783 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Mandingo View Post
BTW I found that the autozone rental compressors only worked if I attached them as pictured:


Spanning 3 coils on either side did not compress the springs enough in my case.
Its a baetch to get the compressor spanning 4 coils off once the springs are uncompressed because the top arm of the compressor is wedged in the coils pretty tight. Its doable though.
Yes this is a big issue, I had to wedge my top of the clip up as far as I could to get more coils in to compress enough, otherwise, like you said, it did not compress enough to remove them.
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