Odyssey Front Strut Replacement

[EricTheCarGuy]

This one gets a little scary. It has a happy ending though.

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[Brian]

Eric just did this on my odyessy today. Fortunately we don’t have the rust issues here in Houston that some of you have up north. So I had no problems with the stabilizer link bolt etc. Couldn’t have done it without your video to guide me. Thanks!!!!!!! Brian

[David]

Hadn’t seen this video before – having spring compressors jump like that would scare the crap out of me! Glad to see you escaped unscathed! I agree with the comment above that the vibration from the impact may have been the likely contributor – perhaps in more ways than one – it’s too easy to compress each side and get a sizeable imbalance (causing the spring to arc too much and then with the vibration, let the spring compressor slide on the coil) when using an impact as you can compress the spring a whole lot very quickly (much faster than by hand). I’ve replaced the front struts on our 05 Odyssey twice now (200k miles!) using spring compressors that look the same as the ones in the vid – done by hand, though – without incident (the big springs are more of a pain than the ones on my old 88 corolla years ago, though!)

I would love to have a wall mount spring compressor, though – those are without a doubt the best way to go it you have access to one!

[Danciu Sergiu]

Hy everyone,
I do some spring and damper change with the spring compressor in the picture attached, it is quite good because it has 2 hooks both sides.

And I don’t have an impact so I used allen key and tubular socket.

HAVE PHUN!

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