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I was changing the shocks on my jeep and needed a way to compress the rubber bushings. While browsing a flea market, I came across this clamp. Suppose to be a woodworking clamp, I guess, but it looked like it would work great for installing the shocks. I made a slotted adapter from a piece of 1" pipe, put the clamp around the shock mount, put the adapter over the shock mounting post against the washer, cranked the clamp down and dropped the cotter pin through the slot in the adapter into the hole in the mounting post. Cost $5.00 and worked slick!

Great idea and cheap as well, nice one

Chuck,

That is a handy looking tool, I've never seen one of those before.

This is an 11-year old post and for some reason I can't see the original photo? Is there any way to recover it? I'm fixing to install shocks and would rather do it the easy way.

I did come across these for anybody who doesn't quite have every original jeep tool in the collection:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Compressor-Shoc ... ErheiqfLCQ

That is the correct tool. For the WWII jeeps. M38 shock mountings use threaded studs and nuts.





All you need to do is fabricate the slotted ring and use any clamp you find that will fit the space to squeeze the slotted ring over the washer & rubber bushing then slide the cotter pin in.

Here's another view of an original tool.





Even a few of the valve spring compressors can be adapted to the task.

Here's an informative web site on the use of the compression typ home made tool for cotter pinned type jeep shocks:
http://www.1943mb.com/c-116-MB_GPW_Repl ... rbers.aspx

Thanks Wes! One picture worth a thousand words. I failed to say that I'm installing shocks on a M100.

And apologies too! Meant to say Willys (not original) jeep tool... Naturally, the original jeep was a Bantam.