Originally posted by GregCarter:
The ball joint bolt required a bit more hammering than I would have liked, but finally got it out. I also need two sets of spring compressors to get the spring compressed, but maybe the one I rented (from Canadian Tire) just wasn't long enough.





They probably gave you a coil spring compressor as opposed to a McPhearson Strut compresor (which is really almost always two separate compressors packaged together).