Okay, I’ll admit maybe I should have read the manual first, but it still took me 15 minutes to realize not all lug nuts are the same, after all, how hard can it be to take a tire off. I’ve never owned a car that has regular threads on one side and reverse threads on the other, what’s up with that!! Today we completely pulled the suspension parts on the driver’s side, upper and lower ball joints, shafts, arms, spindle and spring are now all gone. 
While the original plan was just to pull the whole front suspension, I chickened out and decided to just take one side down at a time, so I would have a pattern when it is time for it to go back. The sway bar link was in bad shape and immediately broke when we put the wrentch on it.
After 2 rounds of pressure washing the parts still had a lot of baked on and caked grease so we are sending them out to be cleaned before we do anything else. The drum looks in good shape so we will have it inspected to see if we can turn it down or not. Now we just need to clean up the garage again, that grease and debris gets into everything. Time is short right now, but I will get more photos up as time allows.
