W84603 | GM Door Spring Tool

Had to have when replacing door pins on my 1996 s10. Worth every penny.

Works well very handy

did the job very well

After reading several reviews. I was holding my breath that mine wouldn't bend b4 I could get this incredibly strong spring. In the door hinge on a 99 GMC Suburban. I had tried to get the spring compressed down enough 5 or 6 times. I had to keep readjust the spring. My stress level went up every time I started tightening the bolt. I was shying away from going to the 1st coil on either end of the spring. Then noticing it seemed to be better to Not push the spring deep into the notch. Better to have it "half" way in. So I dug up a couple HD steel strips like you'd use to connect a Jack to the front of your boat trailer. I went with 2 sizes. Bonus I didn't need to drill any holes in the flat bar. I also ground the left side of the V notch on the tool. I noticed the spring had a tendency to sit in on that side and wasnt leaving enough opening for the spring to index on the seats. Good news my tool didn't bend. Bad news the tool wasn't able to compress the spring far enough to put it up in place and back off the bolt. No but I was able to get the spring inplace on the pivot side. On the humped side the spring was Soooo close! Did I mention it's a super stiff spring?! Notice in the pictures the one piece of flat bar sticks out about an inch in the back of the tool. Perfect for getting a crescent wrench on. Then i was able to twist the whole contraption while simultaneously using a hammer to get that spring to just start going on it's seat!! then I was able to use a large punch and a BFH to finally seat the spring!! Had I had a second person that struggle wouldn't have been quite so anxiety ridden! Then again, it's a tight spot for 2 people. Another issue on that top hinge. The head of the hinge pin will interfere with the spring. If the hinge pin isn't seated in far enough. If your not as flexible as you once were you may not see the pin in the way. If you don't make the effort to bend over far enough to see that pin head b4 the spring is half way in. Then it's much more difficult. Good Luck it's a real hoot!

A tool I never knew I needed

I saw all the bad reviews on this product and wasn't sure it would work but I'm glad i bought it. I saw the biggest problem is the tool bending when trying to compress the spring. So, I put the spring in the tool as close to the ends as I could, then put the tool in the vise to compress the spring. So the vise is actually compressing the spring and not the tool but the tool will hold it after you tighten up the bolt. Then install the spring and use a 1/2 wrench to loosen the bolt on the tool and you're done... PS: Wear safety glasses when doing this just in case....

Total JUNK bent and spring flew almost hitting someone Used correctly per instruction 40plus yr mechanic

I purchased the Performance Tool W84603 Door Spring Tool to compress the spring for my Bobcat 753G skid loader safety bar. The tool worked great for compressing the spring to allow the safety bar to be removed to replace the interlock sensor. It also made it very easy to reinstall the bar with the tool holding the spring in the compressed state. I am sure it would useful for compressing other heavy duty springs and allowing you to control the release similar to what I had to do with the safety bar spring. Definitely was a lot safer than trying use a prybar or other method to compress the spring.

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Enough said, it's great. Be careful as the spring is under a lot of tension and will fly to the moon if it slips out after removed from the door.

Did exactly what I bought it for and is solidly built. For the price it blows the local offerings away.

Me sirvió para quitar el resorte de la puerta de una blazer 2000, y de igual forma para reinstalarlo. Pues para cambiar los bujes y pernos de las puertas primero tienes que retirar el resorte. Excelente y útil herramienta.