Oh my god!!!

I set about lowering the front of the car this weekend... stupidly i only started it on Sunday "How hard can it be?" i thought, you just undo everything and pull the strut out etc... i read up on here about ho it's done and found a guy willing to lend me a sring compressor and off i went.

After spending nigh on an hour bashing the crap out of the track rod end i remembered i had a haynes moding manuall under the bed... of i went to fetch it as theres no way it should be this hard... i must be doing something wrong?
Turns out i need a ball joint tool. Right oh... off to Halfrauds to get one... £9 later I set back to it only to find even though i thought i'd been clever and bought the tool that has a bolt to push the joint out rather than bashing it with my big 'ammer, i had actually screwed it up as it didn't fit properly. By this time the place was shut so i gave up and finished the weekends supply of beer!

This morning I had to take the spring compressors back to the guy I borrowed them off as he needed them then i pootled off to work.

On the way home a stopped in at the halfrauds and asked the woman very gingerly if i could swap the tool as it was the wrong one. "Sure" she said with out even looking to see if i'd opened it (and got it covered in oil that i couldn't get off shhhh!) Not only did she let me exchange the opened and used item, she gave me the few quid differance in price back as well!!! bonus day!

On returning victorious i set about the ball joint and had it separated in minutes! then i atacked the nut that holds the driveshaft onto the disk... I nearly gave myself a hernia and gave up... Any idea's would be nice lol.

Anyways, I'm going to have a look and see if i can find out why it won't budge and give it another go tomorrow!

I WILL GET THIS SUSPENSION ON BY MYSELF!!!

I could understand not being able to budge the torsion bar but the fronts are just as hard!!!