[jyl]

Well, I stole a few 5 hours to work on the car today and made some progress. Front monoballs installed, new Bilstein strut inserts installed, separated strut from balljoint (will need new wedge bolts, I buggered them pretty good), removed front A-arm mounting brackets, removed bolts from cross-member and removed retaining caps from rear of A-arms.

I got stuck on removing the A-arm. Everything that needs to be unbolted is, the A-arm wiggles loosely, and now the Bentley manual says to "pull [A-arm] forward out of [cross-member] subframe. Well, the A-arm doesn't want to "pull forward". I can't really tell if the swaybar is holding it back or if something else is stuck.

Any tips? Do I simply have to use a lot of prying, cursing, and heavy mallet blows - or is there a trick?

BTW whoever worked on the car last used a lot of anti-seize - bless them.