Seriously, why cant anyone manufacturer drop links which are easy to remove? These are parts which are such a common (if minor) failure on most cars, and so cheap, that they can almost be considered a service item. Yet they are almost always a complete bar steward to remove.
I got the drivers side one off ok, no issues other than access. Once cracked off, the nuts on each end of the link came undone fine. But on the passenger side, after feeling the nuts crack off, it soon became apparent that the entire thread was just turning, not just the nut. Had they placed a hex socket in the middle of the thread so you could get a hex key in to hold it still while undoing it? No. Of course not. What they
had done, was place a flat section on the part of the thread between the ball join body and the roll bar. But the flat section was only millimetres thick, and in order to get a spanner round it, I had to cut away all the rubber gaiter from the ball joint first. All this in close confines of the suspension arm with barely any room to manoeuvre tools.
And then, once the nuts were off, despite both wheels being in the air, there was still tension on the ARB, so I had to get the jack under the lower ball joint and compress the whole assembly, just take take enough tension off the ARB to be able to withdraw the drop link.
Tl;dr - I ****ing hate droplinks and all the people who design them
