This is the easy way to remove rear springs 94-98 svt.
My Cobra sat kind of ass-high, so I wanted just drop the rear 1.5" to give it a more level look. Jacked the car up and supported both sides with jack stands on the rear subframe. I was going to do the stadard lowering of the lower control arm to remove the springs, so I began to remove the bolt that holds the control arm to the axle. Used a little pb blaster and was able to get the nut off the bolt, but absolutely could not remove the bolt, largely due to the age of the car. Probably could have removed it if I could have hit it with a hammer, but the rotor prevents this.
I remember reading somewhere that you could drop the axle low enough to get the springs out by disconnecting the top of the rear shocks (located behind panels in trunk) and by disconnecting the quad shock at the axle, so I put a jack under the dog-bone and jacked the rear end up enough to take the pressure off the shocks, took the bolts off the shocks and the quads and lowered the jack and sure enough it dropped the axle enough for me to pry bar both springs out relatively easy. You can have a friend put some pressure on the side you are working on to lower the axle a little more. Makes it even easier.
For my purposes and budget, I just cut one coil off of each spring(CUT FROM THE TOP, IF YOU CUT FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE SPRING IT MAKES THE PIG TAIL REALLY WIDE FOR THE SPRING PERCH. THIS IS MY OPINION SO DONT GIVE ME SHIT.) resused the stock isolators and reinstalled the springs. Buttoned everything up and the car sits nice and level now. So if you have a older mustang and dont want to spend an inordinate amount of time wrestling with that damned lower control arm bolt, this is the way to go.
My Cobra sat kind of ass-high, so I wanted just drop the rear 1.5" to give it a more level look. Jacked the car up and supported both sides with jack stands on the rear subframe. I was going to do the stadard lowering of the lower control arm to remove the springs, so I began to remove the bolt that holds the control arm to the axle. Used a little pb blaster and was able to get the nut off the bolt, but absolutely could not remove the bolt, largely due to the age of the car. Probably could have removed it if I could have hit it with a hammer, but the rotor prevents this.
I remember reading somewhere that you could drop the axle low enough to get the springs out by disconnecting the top of the rear shocks (located behind panels in trunk) and by disconnecting the quad shock at the axle, so I put a jack under the dog-bone and jacked the rear end up enough to take the pressure off the shocks, took the bolts off the shocks and the quads and lowered the jack and sure enough it dropped the axle enough for me to pry bar both springs out relatively easy. You can have a friend put some pressure on the side you are working on to lower the axle a little more. Makes it even easier.
For my purposes and budget, I just cut one coil off of each spring(CUT FROM THE TOP, IF YOU CUT FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE SPRING IT MAKES THE PIG TAIL REALLY WIDE FOR THE SPRING PERCH. THIS IS MY OPINION SO DONT GIVE ME SHIT.) resused the stock isolators and reinstalled the springs. Buttoned everything up and the car sits nice and level now. So if you have a older mustang and dont want to spend an inordinate amount of time wrestling with that damned lower control arm bolt, this is the way to go.
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