So i got the wire off the post, here was what i did.

I cut the wire and left about 4", then i got some needle nose pliers and pulled the wire straight down and it basically bent the wire an un-coiled it. Then to apply the new wire, the loop was a bit big, i gently squeezed the loop and it snapped right into place. Once i figured it out, it took about 5 minutes to pull the old, and replace. To bad i spent about three hours trying to figure out how to unhook the wire...

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1983 300D ..... So little time, so much work.