Absolutely! Unfortunately, my experience with service manuals have been hit and miss.

Any repair that I need to do, that I need to consult a manual on, tends to refer to some odd-ball tool that nobody has ever heard of being refered to by that quoted name. (Ohh, tool J 32b for instance - which I had no idea was a factory GM door alignment tool.)

Guys, I really appreciate it - it looks like this should be a pretty straight forward thing. Crank off the hub bear, drop the lower ball joint, pull out the axle, and see what misc. suspension bracket'ery is in the way of yanking it fully out. Things like this might even make me a Honda owner one day... well, Acura maybe