I’ve got to tackle this job soon. Not looking forward to it, but am planning on removing whole lower arm, to replace those inner bushes as well, so that might make access etc all a bit easier. Also have steel springs, so will just use spring compressors to take Load off everything, which might help..

Just need to make a removal tool after work this week.

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