Ok...finally time to attack the front end that's been sitting in my garage for two weeks.

I have an angle grinder, pads, wire wheels, and texas toothbrushes.
I got my Total Suspension kit from Prothane.
I have a spring compressor.

My subframe is supported on jackstands up under the cross member.

My plan of attack is:

Remove all brake lines, rotors, and calipers.
Remove shocks.
Remove steering box.
Remove coils.
Remove bars, tierods, ball joints.

Is that the right order?

Jim

Going from the outside in will make it easier:
remove the rotors,calipers
remove bars,tie rods
remove steering box
remove ball jionts,coils,shocks...not necessarily in that order
remove control arms?
remove brake lines

Thanks...thinking the coils need to come out after the shocks but before any ball joints..?

Jim

Are you changing your steering box? You don't need to remove that, unless you are havin problems with it. Read through the posts on ball joint replacement/removal. You can use your floor jack under the LCA, no need for a spring compressor. You can also use your shock as a safety device when lowering the LCA. If you don't, use a bike cable or chain through the spring and around the frame for safety. Use the tension of the springs to pop the ball joints. Make sure you have your car up high, so that you can have a full range of movement of the LCA. Read through the posts, the guys have a lot of good info to follow. I had never done one before, until last winters project. Now she runs straight and true.

Are you changing your steering box? You don't need to remove that, unless you are havin problems with it. Read through the posts on ball joint replacement/removal. You can use your floor jack under the LCA, no need for a spring compressor. You can also use your shock as a safety device when lowering the LCA. If you don't, use a bike cable or chain through the spring and around the frame for safety. Use the tension of the springs to pop the ball joints. Make sure you have your car up high, so that you can have a full range of movement of the LCA. Read through the posts, the guys have a lot of good info to follow. I had never done one before, until last winters project. Now she runs straight and true.

I think from his post,he's doing a total tear down,grind,clean,repaint,rebuild at least thats what I got from the post.

Total tear down/rebuild, and the subframe is removed from the car.

Jim

and the subframe is removed from the car.

Jim

That makes it a bit harder. When dealing with springs, weight is your friend.

Yeah...that's why the spring compressor's in the game... ;)...and yes...I'll chain it also.

If I compress the spring enough to take all the tension off the arms, can I disassemble the arms and just drop the spring out the bottom?

Jim

Yes. You'll want to pop the balljoints first, with the spring tension on and the ball joints nuts loose but still on. The spring will help then to separate.

If you don't care about the springs (if they are old or need replacement as part of the rebuild), it might be quicker (and safer) to just cut them with a torch with the car jacked up.

The subframe is not in the car...AND more importantly...I don't have a torch ;)

Jim