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I once saw a shadetree guy with two pieces of threaded rod and some booger welded hooks to compress Macphersen struts. We were drinking beer while he was working on the car. I excused myself from the scene for awhile.
 

I'll see that and raise you the rookie who started to take the piston rod nut off without even removing the strut. Apparently he thought the weight of the car would hold the spring down. (There is an older model of GM car where you leave the spring and strut in place and just change a cartridge, but that wasn't it.) I stopped him in time before disaster ensued. He quit or was fired not too long after that.

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I'll see that and raise you the rookie who started to take the piston rod nut off without even removing the strut.

Holy Shit! That's when you run to the service writer's counter and hide.