I had to put new door pins in my SUV "blazer" the other day and in doing so needed to remove the spring that you see just below the door pins. Anyways the spring is 3" long and very tough to compress, I've been able to compress it in a vice but how to I compress it to put it back into the door jam? I've tried
1) Compress the spring with vice and tie down with wire but I'm not able to leave any part of the end open to do this since the spring starts to arch in that direction if I do.2) Tried to compress it with large pliers but then I can't get the pliers and spring into the door jam?
IDEAS?