Christ man your lucky you didn't lose and eye or a testical or something, some of those spring compressors should be illegall
That is the good thing about the GC thoe, no tension.
Yeah, don't thoes instructions suck? I love the pics with question marks on them, like they don't even know what it's a picture of.
Sounds like your on the right track with the install thoe. I really can't remember what I used for spacers and cups and stuff, I think I didn't even get most of that extra crap with my struts, like Porter already weeded them out for me. Just use your intuition and do what seems right.