Both axles installed last night, no issues. Did the pass side first and lost about 3 cups of Wal Mart Super Tech trans fluid. Used a long screwdriver behind the axle and it popped right out. I had the car on jackstands at the front jack points and didn't have enough swing room left on the long crow bar to get the lower control arm off of the ball joint stud. I wound up disconnecting the strut and lifting the control arm off of the BJ stud. On the driver's side, no additional fluid was lost and once I knew what I was doing it went pretty quickly. Even though I added a few steps to Bill's write up by removing the caliper and rotor, and the strut disconnect, it was still only 3 hrs start to finish. Downside of disconnecting the struts was that there was a little play in the mounting holes....even with a mark, a very small movement really changes that alignment angles....so...off to get an alignment today.
Speaking of tools, I was at Sears getting the 16mm and 18mm wrenches missing from my set, and decided to spring for a pickle fork set:
Helped a lot separating the BJ and tie rod connections.
