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I was hoping to save money and do the job at home and it did not look complicated at all.
I had to buy a few new tools to get on with it, but I would still save some money.
Three days before I was going to do the job, I started spraying the nuts and bolts that was to be remowed with rust remower so they would come off more easely. I sprayed them six times in all.
Yesterday morning I started on the job, but after three hours I had not been able to loosen a single nut...
I was using ordenary handtools like a Socket wrenches and a hammer.
But I was not able to loosen the nuts. What kind of tools are Matthew using for the job? I do not know that, there are no tools seen on the pictures exxept a spanner and the two strut spring compressors.
That can hardly be all what Matthew used. My car is a 850 GLT from 1995.

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Try something very strong as a lubricating agent. "PB Blaster" was mentioned in this thread:
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