My bonnet springs had been painted a few times over and I really wanted to paint strip them before giving them a fresh coat of satin black. Couldn't really figure out a good way to get inbetween all the coils though properly ?
Then an idea hit me....using my floor jack, I hooked the spring around the axle and around the upper cross pin as you can see in the picture (the picture is before I had spread the spring open by jacking), then just jacked up the jack and it spreads the bonnet spring open! Just sprayed it down with paint stripper a couple times and that got it perfectly bare, then just rubbed it with some scotchbrite and then thinners last up and finally hit it with some primer and then black.
After it dried just released the jack and pulled the spring out. Came out perfect! Put them on the bonnet hinges and as you open and shut the bonnet now and look at the springs you always see a nice tidy surface.
(also stuck in a couple pictures of the hinges, one as it was, and the other after I stripped it, sure came out nice!)
Don't have any shots handy of them all finished closeup, so just added a couple that sorta show them at least.
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Edited by LS1 Hatch, 18 March 2011 - 02:25 PM.
