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Originally Posted by SD1too
I've just tried your suggestion Steve but the design and size of my vice must be different to yours. With the link fitted, avoiding damage to the welded brackets on the strut is the problem where they bear against the contours of the vice body. With your suggestion I would have only 27mm of the strut body held in the vice which I don't consider enough.
Simon
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You could rotate the strut to to the left or the right till the locating lug was within the vice jaws putting the mount to the left or right . As long as it at the front of the vice to clear the bench as the drop link longer than strut
Really You don’t even need it in the vice, you could have just compressed your spring Sat the spring on the floor and positioned your strut through the spring ,the way I changed a front spring on a VW a couple of months ago , Either way you you had the opportunity to easily fit the drop links while the spring was removed