I had found a cool video on the internet a while back I was needing to install new springs on my rhino so this video show you how to use four ratching tie downs with no hooks. Feed the tie downs inside the spring and back up to the top and ratchet 2 at a time doing it as evenly as possible. It really worked great for me just have to be careful when taking the tiedowns off. I will try to find the video. Also on e-bay they say spring compressors for atv shocks pretty cheap.