Need Help! Can't compress strut coil spring enough!

[Gumby]

heat them up and try to compress it more!

NOOOOOO!!!!!

What ever you do, do NOT heat up the spring. Throw a wrachet strap through the middle of the spring and start cranking that bitch down. Just make sure and keep the wratchet strap tight around the spring, just incase the tool you using breaks. That way the spring doesn't fly off and kill someone.

[blmlozz]

NOOOOOO!!!!!

What ever you do, do NOT heat up the spring. Throw a wrachet strap through the middle of the spring and start cranking that bitch down. Just make sure and keep the wratchet strap tight around the spring, just incase the tool you using breaks. That way the spring doesn't fly off and kill someone.

That doesn't seem awfully safe either to be honest. Thank-you for the suggestion however. The Bently for the B5 suggests that the spring need's to be compressed "completely" in order to properly install the strut, which I can only see happening with a nice $200 tool like this
http://www.harborfreight.com/1-ton-a...sor-65549.html
The tension required to get it down as far as it was in the picture was slowing a 500ft/lb impact wrench to a crawl. I can't imagine how much force would be required to go the extra 2-4" required.
I'll have to look around and see if I can find a place that has a IQ above 80 to do this for me, and hope they tighten the nut properly.

I'm thinking that the shocks I have are not the correct ones either if I'm honest. They're ~ .5-1" shorter than the OE shocks, but then again there's 155,000 miles difference between the two, and I can't install the original back on either. Who knows though, They're cheap Monroe's, so it's entirely possible they're the wrong shock.