Thanks for your replys,

I do have the shock out of the spring and the compressor is an internal one that goes up the center of the spring. Its just that once I get the spring about half its unloaded length, the threated rod binds up in the hole and won't let me rotate it out of its position.

Dropping the control arm is seems to be my only option when I don't have the specialized tool. The delema there though, as you mention, there is very little room to work on the trailing arm bolts too!!!

Well I'm going to give it a couple more hours of #&*!!@# trying to figure it out with this tool. Maybe I'll have to put it back together as it was until I get a different tool.

Thanks,

Trev