8 Sept 2016 - Front suspension - passenger side

I picked up a coil spring compressor at the local parts store today.  Its the type that is situated inside the coil.

I used that tool and removed the coil and that took about an hour!

After that I started removing cotter pins from the spindle assembly and removed the castle nuts.  I think I am just going to completely replace the upper and lower control arms and make sure they come with ball joints!

thought seriously about removing the spring perch...but then I woke up and just decided it gets replaced with a new upper control arm assembly