Okay, we may be getting to the root of the controversy here. I couldn't compress my springs until I got the struts out of the car. I rented a compressor (well, I bought it and then OReily's bought it back when I was through). There was not enough room in the strut tower to connect the compressor. If I could have compressed the springs, then I agree that the rest of the job would have been much much easier.
Is there some kind of special compressor for these cars? Maybe that's where a lot of the problems are coming from, but no matter how much I tried, I could not use the spring compressor while the struts were still installed.
