Coiled Spring Pins- How to?

Anyone know how to use coiled spring pins? The garage door replacement gear uses these to fasten to the drive shaft, and apparently they have some shock absorbing capacity (good), but they look like a tightly coiled roll of sheet metal- waiting to unroll into a massive unusable mess as soon as I punch them out.

Am I wrong? Do I just push them out with a roll pin punch and back in when I'm done, or am I looking at a long multi-stage remove and replacement process that ends with me in the ER?

Two words: Phone someone else to do it.

Seriously.

Garage door springs are highly strung death just waiting to dismember you. Hire someone who already pays into a worker's compensation plan.

Unless of course, this isn't the spring you're talking about.

He's not talking about the torsion springs on the door itself, but rather some sort of pin holding a gear on a shaft. I'm only familiar with regular old roll pins, I don't think I've ever seen one that was a coiled piece of sheet metal.

if your talking about the pin on the right just drive it out like any other pin.

http://www.mcmaster.com/#spring-pins/=5i2y6c

In reply to 44Dwarf:

44Dwarf is on the money- it is the pin on the right in the link. No trips to the ER, but one trip to Sears, it came right out and went back in with a roll pin punch. Worked like a charm.

Thanks for the warning SkinnyG- luckily the spring I was talking about is only 3/4" long. It held the high quality plastic shredded to snowflakes gear on the drive shaft coming off the motor.

Love GRM- I ask a question and get an answer before I can even get back from the store. Thanks all