Some can be quite weak, though, meant for nothing heavier than a slip of a gherkin or an olive, and can’t handle the weight of say, a dill pickle. Some have the same handle spring action, but have fork tines that do the grabbing instead and then release the object when the handle is released. Some have a push handle at the end: you push it in to widen the grabber tongs, release it to tighten them again around the object you are grabbing, and then lift. The grabbing ends often look like a set of claws. The pickled items they are generally intended for are small pickled cucumbers or cucumber chunks. So to my understanding, from here I take the top plate, and that isolator thing in between the spring and the top plate from the old tower, put it on the new spring and strut, and add the top plate from jeepinbyal? Or do I take out the old plate altogether? Do you need any sort of spacer for the clevis lift or is that clevis tight enough to the strut to hold it up? seems greasy.Pickle grabbers are tong-like devices meant for fishing pickles out of a jar. So why a ratchet strap? Would spring compressors do the trick? just bolt um on to the springs and tighten a bit before taking bolt off? Or will the strut have some shot to it? Way to go danger sense? Shows what I know about mechanics. we were sitting there holding down the old strut tower and ratcheting off the bolt when we kinda decided to come back here and post our progress. Re bolt nut on top of mount with old washer and new nut provided by OME. Once strut mount is off reuse old mount and compress new springs with a spring compressor. If this cannot be done have a shop near you do it. Do not try this without tightening ratchet straps securely on old strut or you will get seriously hurt. BE CAREFUL please! What I did was used ratchet straps around the old tower and slowly unscrewed the single nut that hold the strut mount on. Then I took of the bottom sway bar bolt to allow the LCA to move further down to pull the clevis off the old strut. What I did last night for mine was take off the clevis bolt, opened up the clevis by putting a small hammer head in between the clevis bolt opening then threading the bold through, thus pushing the clevis open more. If uncomfortable go to a shop and have them assemble new struts. So take caution when using ratchet straps like I did. Please remember a compressed spring popping off strut mount could hurt you and destroy objects around you very seriously. I'm installing my struts today, I'll take a lot of pictures step by step for you, and a video of taking old struts apart and building new ones. Click to expand.What I did last night for mine was take off the clevis bolt, opened up the clevis by putting a small hammer head in between the clevis bolt opening then threading the bold through, thus pushing the clevis open more.
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