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Old 02-11-2016, 09:13 PM   #69
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Originally Posted by rjmorel View Post
Having expounded on that, how the heck do you get the pennies into the spring? My spring was very strong (or I am very weak) an I could only get in about 6-8 pennies into the spring. I hooked one end of spring into a slot on the front crash bar ,I mean engine protector Joe B., and bent the spring to open up the coils. Any better way? rj
FWIW - I had installed the spring the hard way. I needed to take the spring off to do the grinding on the stand so I installed the pennies while the stand was deployed and the spring stretched open. This made it relatively easy. If I had know the penny method before I installed it the first time I would have bent the spring to insert the pennies.

PS: I will save the pennies for the next time I have to install a spring.
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