Got the leaf springs removed from the rear end – had to heat the bolts to get them loose.  Loaded the rear end on my furniture mover dolly and loaded it in the truck – it was HEAVY!

Completed removing the rear end today:

Need to get an extra set of hands to help me load it in the pickup for disposal.  Then I can start on the sub-frame.  Might put my tire skates under the Camaro to move it over more and back the S10 in.  Then I can place the rear end on wheels to move it to load in the S10.  Need to carry it down this narrow path:

Referenced the following information for removing the rear end: http://nastyz28.com/tech/camaroleafspringinstallation.html

Finally got the upper nut cut off.  I started from under the car and then went in through the top of the trunk.  Took a lot of prying to get this far – can’t figure out why the bottom bracket stayed on the bolt!

Finally got it removed from the rear frame rail:

Created a small mess that needs to be cleaned up!  Now you can see part of the reason I went in through the top:

Here is the view from the top of the trunk:

Used the Plasma cutter to prep the driver’s side for cutting (luckily the trunk will be removed for new metal later so I can remove what was in the way!) – before and after:

Working on removing the rear end.  Had to cut off a few nuts:

The front side of the rear end has three bolts on each side.  One of them is harder to access:

These need to be ground off: