[mrolds88]

Here is a way I normally do this. After removing the normal stuff, caliper, sway bar, shock, remove the cotter pins from both ball joints. Back off both ball joint nuts about a ¼”. Make sure you have the jack out from under the control arm now. Take a large hammer and hit the top of the spindle horizontally and that usually gets one of them to break free. When that one hits the nut, it usually shocks the other one enough to pop it loose too. If I have to take the spring out, I run a chain through the spring and wrap it around the control arm or crossmember, then let the lower control arm down. That way if it decides to take off, it won’t go anywhere.