GM 14029399 Front Spring

Replacement of a coil might take some time hence one is advised to read through the procedure and acquire the requite tools before proceeding. First, you have to lift the vehicle and secure it on jack stands slipped under the outer frame members. After that, take off the wheel and tire and, in addition to that, disconnect the stabilizer bar at the lower control arm and make sure you keep all the bolts, nut, grommet spacer and retainers so that you can easily fit them in when you are threading them. Mount the universal coil spring compressor and compress the spring in the right manner as per the maker of the tool. Loosen but do not yet take out the nuts of the lower control arm to the front crossmember pivot bolts. Using a floor jack position it just below the lower control arm at the inner end, in between the two pivot points at the control arm where it links to the cross member, and raise the jack just enough so that both the pivot bolts can be removed. Slowly and safety release the jack and ease the lower control arm bushings off the crossmember. Free the coil spring compressor and take out the spring and insulator noting some of the features as they are being withdrawn from the vehicle. Reassembly entails initiating on the bottom coil of the spring with a view of getting the end to lay at least on part of one inspection/drain hole while the other is only partly or wholly exposed.