It would have been fairly easy but the strut bushing on the right lower control arm was bad and the bolt had frozen to the inner bolt sleeve (the entire bushing was rotating inside the sleave with the bolt). I had to use the sawzall to cut off the bolt at each end and then remove the entire control arm to disconnect from the strut. Thankfully I had a 36mm socket which matched up well with the bushing and I was able to pound out the old bushing by hand, I tapped in the new bushing with the same socket. What should have been one evening of work turned into two.
The rear, top, shock bolts use inboard nuts up above the frame. I would definitely recommend a set of crowfoot wrenches to get up in there, especially on the driver's side nut which is above the fuel tank.
Just remember that you can rotate the top of the strut/coil-over to match up with the mounting holes. Set the new strut next to old one and mirror the angles.
The install was pretty fun for me and I just used my usual set of sockets with a breaker bar.
The Icon kit seems to be well-engineered.
One funny note, I tried to eyeball the alignment with the cam bolts on the lower control arms but I left the tie rods alone. After install, I drove a couple of miles to the alignment shop with the tires squealing. It was a very slow drive.
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