no, I'm not trying to compress the springs on the car. Just using the strut compressor off the car and it has proved rather difficult. So this morning I am taking them into the dealer and going to have them compressed.
The difficult parts so far were trying to figure out how to lower the lca to clear the ball joint. What I didn't undertand was the the strut needed to be pulled to the side. I couldn't figure out why the ball joint wouldn't go far enough down to clear the hub and allow me to pull the hub off the strut. The second one I did (the driver's side) came out in about 15 mins because I knew what I was doing.
