Sorry for the front. I just use a floor jack under the lower control arm but was thinking if I was giving advise I would go with a safty of a jack stand. Without weight on the A arm the angle changes a lot. So on the return trip of your shocks do the same as before but raise the Lower A arm to straighten it out. It WILL go in without removing anything. You will have to compress the shock more but once the bottom has the bolt in it, it's not that hard.