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I can furnish you a ball joint press which allows you to pop them out without
damage (although there is probably no point in doing so with them so old -
in your case I would use the "pickle fork"). Nice to use if you are just
disassembling and plan to reassemble the same parts, i.e to replace a spring.

I guess you know how much energy is stored in the spring so you want to be
pretty careful that it doesn't get away from you. Use appropriate jacks,
blocks or whatever so that you can let her down easy. Be sure and get the
shock absorbers out, the sway bar disconnected, etc before you get into the
serious stuff. Backing up on that job is quite a bit less than "fun".

If you are going to take the lower A-frames out you might want to be ready for
some heavy duty bolt removal. The long bolt sometimes gets rusted into place.
In any case grease it WELL before putting it back in to make the next time
easier.
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George Downs Bartlesville, Heart of the USA!