With all three nuts removed the strut just dropped out. I went into the shop and took all the new components and assembled the new struts and arraigned all the new suspension parts in a layout for both sides of the car. These items will not be installed until I have the tranny dropped, and all the other components in the engine compartment installed.
As you can see with all the parts out, this leaves me a lot of room to work in when I get ready to do the IMS and RMS.
Again, if there are pictures of anything anyone can need...let me know. When stuff is out it is a great time to capture them.