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Originally Posted by Ron in SC
Here's a picture of the bottom of the strut. No place on mine to put T30 or anything else for a counterhold. Maybe because you could not get a socket on the nut at the bottom if you you had the counterhold there.
Also I still think you need to support the wishbone from the bottom because of all the force the shock exerts downward, otherwise the wishbone could release violently when the nut is removed.
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The shock and spring are changed out as a unit when you use the MB part. If you have the truck jacked up where the wheels are off the ground, you have already unloaded the shock/spring assembly, thus, no dangerous condition when you unbolt the entire assembly. Further, the nut is on the bottom simply to stabilize the strut. The strut and spring push down on the wishbone, not pull up. When you take that bottom nut off, the wishbone actually falls off the strut, it is not pushed down by the spring. If it did not, you would need to remove the wishbone to change the struts, which is not the case.