merc w123

you don't need to buy anything fancy.
you can make one from some threaded bar and some steel plate.
i don't have any pics I'm afraid.
hopefully someone will be along shortly who has.

to quote utterpiffle,

"You need one of these, I call it my lowering stick You can lower a w123 in a couple of hours safely without removing the coils. My stick has lowered many, many Mercs!



Some 14 or 16 mm bar, nuts and washers. A piece of 2x1 with a hole in it, and another tough piece of metal that will fit between the coils.



I have since cut the long piece of box down quite a bit.

So, the fronts you cut the bottom off the coil, the rear you cut the top.

Car on axle stands with suspension at full drop.

Put the threaded rod down through the front coil via the hole in the inner wing. Attach the bar at the top, attach the piece in the second photo through the coil about 2/3 of the way down. Now put a jack under the wishbone, and jack until it just about pulls off the axle stand. This will compress the spring loads so that you can tighten up the lowering stick around it. When you now (slowly) release the Jack, the coil will remain compressed at the top, and should pull off the lower wishbone so the bottom 3 or 4 coils are under no compression. From here you can safely lop off a few coils with the grinder (suggest 1 & 1/2 or 2 off the front and 1 off the rear for starters). Then jack the wishbone back up to relocate the coil, undo the lowering stick and jobs a good-un. The only difference on the back is that you want to push the lowering stick up through the lower wishbone, pull the spring down, and cut the top of the coil.
Oh yeah, if it still a bit high for your liking after the above operation, leave it for a couple of weeks, as it will settle about an inch all round!"

heres mine that i dropped in 2005.

oh yes. ;D
ive replied in your thread, but i havnt been too helpful I'm afraid.

Did mine today . ;D

3 coil`s off the front & 2 off the rear .

Sit`s slightly higher at the back & slightly lower at the front than tonycocacola`s in the pic .

Took about 4 hr`s (inc tea breaks) , used no spring clamp`s or speacial tool`s .

Easy if your confident in your spannering skill`s & take your time .