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I noticed there is a hole in the frame on the backside of each spring pin. My question is do i drive them through the frame or insert the punch there and drive them toward the outside, or does it even matter?

Sometimes they don't line up perfectly to drive them to the inside, I usually drive them from the inside out.
Whichever works is fine.

Grigg

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

ok thanks for the replies!