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So here the story goes.

Got a set of coilovers today, got to work installing them. Front drivers side came out like a dream, took about 15 mins to replace.

Moved over to the front passenger side, loosened all the nuts, thinking it was going to be a repeat occurance and fall right out like the last one but boy was i mistaken. This little bitch will not budge.

I've tried jumping up and down on the wheel, somewhat levering it with a breaker bar but no hope. Is there some sort of trick to this? The front drivers side was taken out and replaced about a year ago, so I'm guessing this is why it was loose compared to the passengers side.

Any help would be greatly appreciated :laugh:

Thanks in advance,

Mark

:rant:

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are both the front wheels off the ground? you cannot do one side at a time as umm... one of the components (steering rack? cant remember) applies pressure onto the hub.

found out the hard way when i was doing my gear... was too lazy to put axle stands so i had two trolley jacks either side.

the sway bar applys pressure from one side to the other..

you may need to use a long lever in the form of a pole, or so on... And a jack under the lower control arm to take the weight off it.

Not reall hard to do, but if you do a few things to assist it it will pop right off.

yeah, ended up jacking her up and throwing it on stands, undid the swaybar supports and jumped on the wheel for a while which got it out, then used a jack to lift the arm back up so i could position the strut and bolt it in... easy eh oh well, thanks for all the help guys, much appreciated :P

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