crap man, yeah you hammer the spindle not the actual tie rod, it'll drop out. you didn't reuse the same cotter pins did you? you got new ones right? They are important, those castle nuts are not really TQ'd down, when the hole and castle nut line up, you put the cotter pin in and it pretty much holds it in place, but never reuse them even if they look good. If you look where the k member bolts in, the 2 nuts behind the strut, to the left, you see where your abs line has slack there, you should have pulled it out there, and you would have had alot of slack for your abs line and wouldn't have to unbolt your abs line, it's a pain anyways.
Sitting there till you finish won't hurt nothing.
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