Removing Rear Springs - Peugeot 305 Estate/Van

How to remove the rear springs on a Peugeot 305 Estate or Van (this also will apply to the Citroen C15 Van).

A special tool is used to compress the springs, because of the design of the back axle ordinary spring compressors will not work, there are some examples on the internet of other ways to remove the springs by making up tools but luckily i spotted a spring compressor on ebay and bought it, the cost was split between myself and my cousin who is also restoring a 305 van.

As my daily job is working in the drawing office of an engineering company i drew up the spring compressor in Solidworks, the parts are also saved as DXF files so you can possibly have them cut out with a plasma or laser cutter. The link for the spring compressor drawings is here:

https://www.printables.com/model/6967...

If you have any questions about it feel free to ask.

I am stripping down the back axle to completely refurbish it, when the car was driving it made a plethora of noises, from squeaks to loud thumps over bumps so the best thing to do will be to replace all of the bushes, and bump stops, aswell as the shocks which seem a bit soft now. I also plan to get the axle sandblasted and possibly painted or anodised depending on the cost.

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