Alright,
While some things I've read say to remove the wheels, I managed without doing so, but I have really long arms and pretty damn good dexterity. I don't see wheel removal making it that much easier, personally.
First thing I did was remove a quart of fluid from the reservoir. bought a $10 transfer hand pump at Richlin hardware.
Cracked the hard lines on both sides (by the way, probably the grossest fluid that has ever managed to make it's way onto my skin
), and foamy viscous fluid came out. Looked like peanut butter sauce, but with the consistency of baby oil. And it reeked. A little less than a quart expunged from the hard and soft lines being removed.
Soft line to shock required a 15 or 17mm flare wrench.
Bolts holding accumulators to the body were 12 or 13mm.
Hard line to accumulator was 11mm flare.
Now the reason I'm posting... If you're doing this job, buy the fitting from the accumulator to the soft line. The old ones, if your accumulators are as old as mine (24), are prob sealed to the old accumulator, and being made of brass or some other soft metal, will strip and cut when trying to take em off.
Otherwise, complete removal was only 1.5 hours. I foresee install to be even faster.
-Carlen.