when all goes well, its easy to do it yourself... it looks deceptively safe
and easy too. but when it doesnt the penalty may be high.

you decide. im surprised this time around there seems to be more dont do
its than its safe's.

randy

"wtb" wrote in message
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With a little common sence you can easily do it yourself, once you have
obtained the proper spring, or springs. All the hype about the safty
issue around this seems very discouraging, but I am a novice and did the
change myself using a couple 18" peices of 1/2" rebar to turn the springs.
Beside the proper wrenches little else is needed unless you need to grind
down some of the torsion bar to get the old spring off or new one on.
Find out how many turns of the circular stripes on the spring you need,
that is probably the same as are already on the remaining spring.
If you have the extra $50 to $60 bucks for a second spring you could
easily put it on when you do the broken one, but I am frugle and will wait
for the second one to give up before spending that money. It has been two
years and the good spring still is working fine on mine.
No biggie, just be carefull. JMO