Removal of front struts

JIN2012

I know this is pretty old , but I figured I'd share my recent experience incase someone else runs into this: I Got a good shop (has long handle) jack , some hockey pucks and stacked them up on the jack. Got my breaker bar and 19mm socket on the nut. On other side I placed a 22mm wrench on the other nut to prevent it from spinning making sure the wrench was resting on the subframe. I then just jacked up the breaker bar saving my back and satisfyingly watched the nut break loose as the suspension made like a sudden downward motion when the nut gave up. As for the bolt on the flimsy braket on the strut, I just placed an Allen key behind bracket to stop it from flexing then hit the bolt with the breaker bar and socket. The other bracket with 3 14mm bolts, I hit the one bolt thats by itself with an air impact wrench, came out like butter, the other two I used a 14mm socket and ratchet..

As for removing the strut I used SPOHNs advice and removed the strut by carefully dropping it towards the back of the car but being careful with the brake line. Trying to push down on the rotor to get the strut over the lca is the asinine way.