Can you try to unscrew it out? The spring is coiled, so it might work. If that does not work... I presume that you have the car supported by the crossmember and weight off the LCA? You could try jacking the LCA up so the hole is not offset so far.
Not to hijack your thread, but I noticed on the Monroe site from your link that you can search your shock application by license plate number?!? I tried it, and it works... To my knowledge, that info is only held in one place, the state*s DMV. I wonder how much is paid for access to that database? And how much data is actually provided? Cal
