Clutch return spring

Any suggestions on how to stretch the return spring enough to connect it while stretched out upside down with your head and one arm in the footwell and your feet up in the air?

I had mine break several years ago and after fighting to get a new one hooked up for several hours with no luck, I resorted to removing the master cylinders and the complete hanging pedal assembly and replacing the spring on the bench. Hopefully someone knows an easier method....

Well, apparently no one has another method. Unless I triple in strength I guess the pedal assembly is coming out. Thanks

I wonder if this would work:

Maybe one of the spring tools that usually come with drum brake toolkits?

Ex:

https://www.wish.com/product/5c08c9...MIidnjsL6Q5gIVhMVkCh3V1gjYEAQYBSABEgLHZvD_BwE

Remove the front seat and seat belts .
now fasten a long loop of aircraft cable between the seat belt mountings .
now using a small cum along and some other aircraft cable or something similar as a hook on the the end of the spring . Use the cum a long to stretch the spring to the right place and manoeuvre it into place .release cum a long and have a beer in celebration then reassemble .

If one were to remove the clevis pins and the pushrods, the pedals swing backwards, decreasing tension on the springs. Using a long pair of needlenose pliers or the spring tool above, it might be possible to hook up the springs. Might be easier than removing the master cylinders and the pedal box...

Steve, I though so too, that's why I spent hours trying - the springs are really stiff and have a pretty long return on the hooks and the holes are rather small so as to prevent them from easily coming undone. Using needle nose pliers I was not able to get enough sideways bend to get the end hooked into the hole. The only thing I didn't try, because I don't have one, is a needle nose visegrip - I still wonder if that would work... And someone else may have better luck/skills than I do.

But after removing the clevises and unbolting the masters, there are only two bolts on top to remove to get the pedal assembly out of the car. When I found my spring broken, I was due for a master cylinder rebuild at the time so it wasn't all that much extra work. I did replace both springs while I had it out

Dave