[boygenius]

This is what I did with my car when I had no body on the chassis to hold it down. I took a floor jack and placed the cup of the jack under the bottom of the spring plate. I than wrapped a chain under the jacks front wheels and used a bolt to secure it to the shock tower. Just put a little preload on the spring plate and use two large screw drivers to wiggle the the spring plate past its stop and than slowly let the jack down. Hope that helped.