Nearside rear ARB link on a 1.8 Honda Civic of 2001 vintage.
Was an mot repair and service. Did the service and life was good. An arb link should be straight forward. The top link was easiest access. Couldnt get a gun in. Tried to just spin nut off first. Whole thing spinning which i excpected. Couldn't get any grips on the ball joint cos of access initially. Eventually did and it didn't make a big of difference lol
Next tried the Allen key. I stripped that. Lol
Decided to cut it off. Couldn't get the right angle. Then compressor died. Eventually cut through it but had left a bit too much on the ball joint side and ended up hammering it with a punch in to a point to go through the roll bar.
Then I had the awkward end to do
All in all it took me about an hour and half just to get the o!d one out.
Moral of the story. The simplest of tasks can turn in to nightmares lol
Won in the end though