What I did was get a 4" and 5" PVC coupler, a 5/16" threaded rod, some angle iron, two washers and nuts and used that to compress the C1 and C2 return springs... I'll have to post some pics of my redneck engineering :rofl:
Can you do this without a press or custom tool?
IIRC, Guy wrote a CNC program for it.
I think I have it it in my garage somewhere...........
Last time I used it was years ago.
well as always I wait a month to hold my promise but here is a pic of my spring cage compressor and my bench stand. And you can see my tool for seating the mainshaft as well.
If people didn't know these were to rebuild a transmission the tub of vaseline in the background might raise a few questions..