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[holtender]

Yes the other side is the hard one!

 I'd remove the brake caliper it makes it so much easier to access the bolt.

[Neil_MV6]

Cheers, guys.  I took the caliper off anyway which meant access to the pinch bolt was easy and I also accessed the Rear mounting top bolt from under the car so know what to expect for the other side.

Well off to have a bash now, report back later.

[markomega25]

Cheers, guys.  I took the caliper off anyway which meant access to the pinch bolt was easy and I also accessed the Rear mounting top bolt from under the car so know what to expect for the other side.

Well off to have a bash now, report back later.

How did it go? I hope you got it done, any problems?

[Neil_MV6]

All was going well until I had to get the rear bolt back through on passenger side, what a nightmare.  

There's no space for even a slight amount of leverage to push the bolt down, so the alignment has to be spot on.  On the drivers side,you can get a long 'thing' down through the engine bay to push the bolt down (in my case an upside-down golf putter  :-? ) so you can get away with it, even if it's slightly out of alignment.  

It took me about 2 hours of sweaty pushing, shoving, grunting and farting to eventually get it through.  i was wondering at times if i was going to get it on at all!  :-/

Once again, none of the nuts and bolts were any problem to remove, maybe due to the car being an 02 model.

Handling is much improved, I'm well pleased but since doing it the n/s wheel bearing is sounding like it needs doing, I didn't really notice it before.  Must be because its all tighter and is reverberating through the suspension more?

Overall a job well worth doing.

Thanks for all the advice chaps.  

Breathers next!

[Ian_D]

A bigger hammer. HTH

Hehe... I second that!

I ended up using the back of a big old axe when i did my grans fiesta