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Then I removed the nuts from the lower Ball Joints on each wishbone, found just below where the driveshaft attachs to the wheel hub. You might find it easier to turn the steering for this, make sure you put the steering lock back on though as undoing the nut is impossible without it on. Next is to split the ball joint with a splitter, for these joints you are going to need a small Ball Joint splitter as there is not much room between the top of the threaded bar on the end of the ball joint and the stub axle/hub.

Since I had the ball joint splitter at hand I decided to remove the nut on the ball joint on each track rod end, then I split the joint just as before.

Next I unbolted the the Anti Roll Bar from each wishbone, see first picture in post (broken bolt pic). Brian showed me a little tip with this, jack up the wishbone under the ball joint and it removes some of the pressure on the bolts holding the Anti Roll Bar in place.

Next I decided that with the wishbone still in place with still 3 large bolts to loosen of the nut and bolt that goes through the front bushes on both wishbones. I removed the nut from the end of the bolt, but I left the bolt in the middle of the bushes to hold the arm in place.

There are two 13mm nuts and two 19mm bolts holding the Anti Roll Bar to the car (one 13mm and one 19mm on each side, close to the rear bush) Both these needed to be removed. I removed both 13mm bolts first as it makes it easier for working. Now the only thing left holding the Anti Roll Bar to the car was two 19mm bolts (again, one each side of the car). These 19mm bolts go through the Anti Roll Bar bracket and then through the bracket that wraps around the rear bush and holds it up against the car. Once both I removed these 19mm bolts the Ant Roll Bar could be removed.

Now there will be one 19mm bolt through the bracket that wraps round the rar bush and holds it to the car, once removed I was able to pull out the bolt through the front bush (the one I left in) and the arm come away from the car with a little bit of force.

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