I am slowly making progress on my 67 restoration but have a "rookie" question. I want to rebuild my front suspension with new bushing and paint and need to know about the springs. Do i need a spring compressor if the engine is out? Are the springs still under a lot of pressure. I just need to remove everything hopefully on Monday.

Thanks.....Here's a picture of the project.

Welcome. To do it safely - yes, you will need a spring compressor. I redid the front end of my car like you after removing the engine.

You will read about using chains and other ways to "control" the spring that allow you to skip the compressor, but when you can "borrow" one from the local parts place...

Others have recreated a spring compressor with threaded rod and that is also a good way to do it if you like creating your own tools (my brother LOVES stuff like that). If you can handle our unwieldy search system - there are a few good message threads contained in here someplace about crafting up the all thread type compressors. It's Christmas week in the office and it will likely be dead slow, so I will try to remember to go looking for you tomorrow

Thank you for the welcome, for some reason I lost my link to the site and am just now getting involved in the forum community.

I will try the search function again, your right sometimes it returns other topics and then i go off reading about those projects lol.

Having the next week off hopefully I can get some more done to the vert.

Thanks again

Randy

You may be able to rent one from your local parts store. I bought my off summit for $39 it's not worth losing a finger/eye for.

the threaded rod works very well if you have the front end apart like you do. Its very safe. here are some pics of the set-up I used if it might help you.
http://www3.telus.net/68bird/front_suspension.htm

I used the redi-rod as well, it worked nicely. I did buy a spring compressor but it wouldn't fit in the coils. The homemade one was much better.

Here's some of the older topics covering this:

http://www3.telus.net/68bird/front_suspension.htm

https://firstgenfirebird.org/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=271619&page=1

Thanks guys, I really appreciate the input. Maybe I'll get these off before Christmas.

Well......mission accomplished.

Got everything off safely and now the cleaning and rebuilding begins. Looks like a front disc conversion is also on the list.