has any one made or is it poss to make your own spring compresser as taking car of road to rebuild front bushes etc could be of the road for some time, shudder to think what it would cost to hire for a long period of time yhanks in advance for help

 

I've made a spring compressor. M16 threaded bar, thick steel plate with hole drilled in and a hole through the top of the bar with another smaller bolt through it to key in at the turret.

The bar has still to be cut to length.
What bushes do you need to replace? The top wishbone bushes and shock bushes can be replaced withought the compressor although a jack under the lower ball joint is needed for the shock bush replacement. Not needed for upper wishbone bushes.
I didn't realise how high the car needs to be to decompress the spring with a jack. I gave up as the car I was working on was a breaker car and didn't think it was worth the effort as springs and shocks looked tired.

 

top and bottom wishbone bushes so i need to make a spring compresser for the job have high lift 3 ton trolley jacks "2 off" 4 axle stands and tools so thing i may be able to do the job