TR6 Creaking TR6 Redux

[stob62]

I also have a creaking problem--very embarrassing. I think it's coming from the left rear trailing arm bushings at the frame mounts. I removed the trailing arm last winter and replaced the busings with TRF urethane ones. Any way to get rid of this.
Also, can anyone send a link or picture of a spring compressor design to fit the TR? I'd like to fabricate one.

 

[71tr]

I have heard that urethane bushes tend to squeak but have no personal experience. The spring compressor is nothing more than threaded rod of decent size with a piece of steel plate at one end held on by appropriate nut fastener and the other end has a couple of washers and threaded nuts. Remove the front shock and slide the threaded rod up thru the opening, the steel plate catches the spring pan below and by tightening the nuts where they protrude from the upper shock mount you relieve the spring tension from the vertical link.

 

[LastDeadLast]

Urethane bushings have a bad tendency to squeak if you don't use grease when you install them. Even then they still might squeak. Short of taking off the trailing arm, I'm not sure how it could be fixed.. maybe someone will have an idea...

The spring compressor I have is basically, a 2 foot long 1/2in threaded rod with a plate the bolts to the lower shock mounts with a rounded hole in the center for the rod to go through. You use large washers to bolt the rod through the upper shock mount and through the hole in the plate mentioned above.

To use, you tighten the lower bolt until the lower a-arm is roughly at a 90-degree angle to the frame. You then unbolt the spring plate and slowly loosen the threaded rod until the spring drops out from the bottom.

I'm attaching a crude drawing of the compressor and how it works. Hopefully it makes better sense than my description.