From my experience of doing this, you will have to separate the lower
A-arm from the hub carrier and remove the sway bar. This is how I went
about doing this, may not be the safe and recommended way mind you.
1.Remove the front sway bar.
2.(this is where one might be skeptical) After removing the shocks, wrap
the spring with high tension wire numerous times, from as high as you can
go to as low as you can go. Be conservative and wrap it like a man
possessed. I used 50-lbs wire and wrapped it 6 times in 3 places around
the spring. This will allow you to drop the lower A-arm without the
spring's tension helping it out.
3.once the spring is wrapped exceptionally well, lift the car up high
enough to be able to drop the lower A-arm down vertically.
4.Watch the spring easily drop out after undoing the lower ball joint,
and swinging the A-arm out of the way.
I hope this of some help, probably more confusion though.
Ted Reese
'66 Alpine
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