SAFETY NOTICE: If you support the car like I did, the balance point (with the rear end still on) is almost exactly at the back of the rocker panels. I set a hammer in the trunk, and the whole thing started pivoting backwards. I threw a bunch of stuff in the front floor pans to temporarily balance the car while I dropped the rear end. This was simply a matter of removing the shocks and the rear shackles.
Removing the forward spring mounts has been a challenge. There are 3 bolts on each side holding a stamped mount to the body. 5 out of the 6 are spinning the inaccessable nuts. I will have to cut through the floors to get to them, but I am replacing the floors anyway. For the moment, the car is safely balanced with the rear resting on the ground, though it is not yet completely detached.
Floor Pans Part 1 (Passenger): My rear seat shelf and front seat pan is absolutely fine, but both front and rear footwells are rusted through and poorly repaired. The rust up front extends up the firewall, so a "full" floor will not cover the damage. I chose to use two half floors from NPD (C-12900-1A and C-12900-2A). These run from about a third of the way up the firewall to the beginning of the rear seat pan, so they are the perfect length for my floors. Doing one half at a time also allows me to use the opposite side for reference. I cut out the foot wells to do some exploring and find out how much metal needs to be replaced.
