I've got this 02 Taurus that I had to replace the front shocks and struts on a few years back, and unfortunately, they hold the front of the car up WAY too high. It looks terrible, but I was in a hurry to get it done and didn't have enough time to back out and get the correct size. The drill-down menu I used to find the part listed it as a correct fit, but it clearly isn't. I'm gonna have some time to work on it more here shortly, and I'd like to get new parts installed and get the ride height corrected.

Thing is, when I was originally installing these oversized shock/strut assemblies I had the pry the living daylights out of the bottom control arm to just barely be able to eetch the thing in. It was so hard to get in there that there was a good chance the lower control arm was gonna bend before it got in. While getting these parts out, I really don't want to flex that bottom control arm that much again if I don't have to, and I'm wondering if there's a way I can somehow cut that assembly out.

I'm not crazy enough to cut a spring in two, but is there a way I can sawsall through just the shock part and pry the rest out?

Wide open to any advice. Thanks

 

See if you can rent a set of coil spring compressors and do the job safely.
Once you get the old ones out, you can install a completely assembled unit on each side, then have an alignment shop do a correct alignment. Do it right and do it once !

A guy can get hurt real badly doing it in an unsafe manner. Lets hope no other damage has been done.

Just think , if you got them from Ford , you would not be doing the job over again.