How to install front lowering spring step by step?

[geezer101]

You shouldn't need spring compressors to get the lowered coils in but you'll need a pair of shop heavy duty axle stands to support the frame at the front and a hydraulic jack to support the control arm while you pull the shock and spring out. Make sure you have the front end of your truck up high enough from the ground to allow you to sufficiently drop the lower control arm out of the way. Support the lower control arm with the jack (pick a spot that won't get in the way of taking the shock out), undo the bottom ball joint nut and give either side of the ball joint lower knuckle a smack with a hammer (the shock is usually enough to free it, leave the retaining nut on there partially to protect the thread and prevent the control arm from just dropping straight out), undo the shock nuts and bolts, take the ball joint retaining nut off completely then slowly drop the jack height to unseat the spring and pull it free. Rinse, repeat and reverse the procedure to assemble it.

[Yuta]

I see, so the shock is what's holding the tension of the spring. Once the shock is gone, the spring is going to be loose, correct?

[Yuta]

You shouldn't need spring compressors to get the lowered coils in but you'll need a pair of shop heavy duty axle stands to support the frame at the front and a hydraulic jack to support the control arm while you pull the shock and spring out. Make sure you have the front end of your truck up high enough from the ground to allow you to sufficiently drop the lower control arm out of the way. Support the lower control arm with the jack (pick a spot that won't get in the way of taking the shock out), undo the bottom ball joint nut and give either side of the ball joint lower knuckle a smack with a hammer (the shock is usually enough to free it, leave the retaining nut on there partially to protect the thread and prevent the control arm from just dropping straight out), undo the shock nuts and bolts, take the ball joint retaining nut off completely then slowly drop the jack height to unseat the spring and pull it free. Rinse, repeat and reverse the procedure to assemble it.

I see, so the shock is what's holding the tension of the spring. Once the shock is gone, the spring is going to be loose, correct?