Glad this crappy spring with weld blobs and dremel tool cuts all over it is out of the the car, never to go back in. I didn’t end up compressing it fully, just enough to get it off its seat and then slide the seat off the A-arm together with the spring. It still “popped” slightly when getting pulled out, but I didn’t trust cranking down on this thing till it was fully compressed. Previous Owners are the real deal.