I'm putting my front springs back in here in an hour or two... this is my first time doing it, and overall the front suspension wasn't bad coming apart. I did the LCA bushings myself with the BJ press from Autozone and other than the steel bushings not being tapped, it was straightforward.
I'm going to try something getting the coil springs back in that I've done with other springs that were too small for a compressor (aka motorcycle coilovers). I am going to compress the spring on the rented compressor and once compressed enough to fit, I will wrap the coils with bailing wire. To keep it safe I'll only wrap one set of coils per actual piece of wire, and I'll wrap each one of those 3-5 times. Sounds confusing, but it's really simple and the way I do it would require multiple catastrophic failures of wire bundles for it to completely unload... the real nice thing about this method is that you can compress springs that are already on the car, bind them up with wire, chain, or any other safe way of taming the beast, drop the jack and the spring will come out compressed and ready to go back in the way it came out. Re install, put jack back under control arm, take load off spring and cut the bailing wire bundles.
Another trick that I learned from motorcycles was to use steel hose clamps as a spring compressor... I did a 550+lb spring with about 10 of them. Only had to compress it about 2in to get it on the coilover though, but the spring maybe had a 2in dia and was only 7-8in long... You just put the hose clamps on from coil to coil and install them evenly around the spring. Tighten them a few turns at a time until you reach the correct length. I'd never use the clamps for hoses again, but