I would suggest you use a floor jack under the springs, just enough to take the weight of the springs off the pins. This was a suggestion of the spring shop that reworked my springs on my COE. The manual says to use a slide hammer to remove the pins. You would remove the grease zerk and insert the slide hammer fitting that screws into the hole. A generic slide hammer I bought at a parts place had the proper fitting as part of the kit (?1/8" pipe thread or whatever a standard grease zerk is). Three of the four pins for both sides of the rear springs came out rather easily with the slide hammer. On one I had to use a punch to get it out and I drove it from the inside out as Grigg said.
Kent
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