R33 Strut Removal

[aphid]

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

Thanks in advance,

Mark

[Eug]

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.

[Simon-S14]

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.

[aphid]

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