1. Begin by chocking your wheels and setting your parking brake.
2. Take a random picture HAHAHAHA!
3. Loosen your lug nuts.
4. Jack up your front tire and place a jack stand under car for safety.
5. Remove tire.
6. Use a 12mm socket or wrench and remove the lower caliper bolt.
7. Use a small bungee cord or rope and attach somewhere out of the way.
8. Use a 17mm socket or wrench and remove both of the torque plate bolts.
9. Take a screwdriver and gently hammer it in between center hub cap and hub. Carefully pry it off. You can also use a large pair of vice grips.
10. Use pliers and remove the cotter pin.
11. Use a 22mm socket or wrench and remove the nut retainer and nut.
12. Remove the rotor/hub assembly. Make sure the outer bearing doesn't fall out. Remove four of the 14mm dust cover bolts.
13. Use a 17mm socket and a breaker bar to remove the steering knuckle to strut bolts.
14. Use vice grips and remove the clip holding the brake line to the strut.
15. Use an adjustable wrench and pry open the bracket.
16. Remove your brake line.
17. Here you take your brute strength if you're alone. Or grab a buddy and put your feet on top of the lower control arm and push down really hard. Use what ever you deem necessary to get that strut off the steering knuckle.
18. Use a 12mm socket or wrench and remove all the strut mount nuts. Be sure to grab it so it doesn't fall and hit the ground.
19. Put something around the strut case and stick it in a vise. Grab your spring compressors and attach them per the manufacturers instructions.
20. Mine are Craftsmen so they used a 24mm socket. I had a half inch breaker bar of sufficient length. Use a cheater pipe or use an air compressor.
21. Relieve the tension on the strut mount. Attach vise grips onto the spring seat and the spring. It sits below the strut mount/suspension support. Now break that 19mm nut loose and remove it.
22. Remove the spring and store somewhere away from people.
23. After you remove the rubber bumper, you can grab a pipe wrench with or without the teeth and remove the big ass nut that holds the original oil filled strut cartridge which can be rebuilt or replaced with a gas shock.
24. Use an angled pick and remove the flat rubber o-ring.
25. Now pull it straight out and dump the oil into a container. You can clean the inside of the strut case or leave it.
26. Grab a new strut cartridge and place it into the strut casing. Use the new hardware and add a little anti seize for insurance. There isn't a torque for the nut that retains the strut cartridge. Get it as tight as possible without ruining the new nut.
27. Grab your Hi-temp grease and work the grease into both sides of the bearing of the strut mount. I spun it on my finger.
28. Reinstall the rubber boot then the coil spring.
29. Align the cutout of the spring seat with the cutout of the new strut cartridge cylinder.
30. Put the suspension support back on top of the spring seat and line up the old depressions in the rubber with the spring.(if you're reusing and not replacing).
31. Clamp the spring and spring support together and decompress the spring. Make sure the bottom coil is against the bottom rise of the strut.
32. Install the new 19mm suspension support nut and torque to 34ft lbs.
33. Reinstall the strut and torque the 12mm nuts to 14ft lbs
34. Reinstall the 17mm steering knuckle to strut bolts and torque 58ft lbs.
35. Put the brake hose back into the keeper tab and bend them straight and insert the clip.
36. Reinstall & tighten the 14mm dust cover bolts and torque to 20-25ft lbs(I didn't see a torque value in the FSM).
37. Clean the spindle and add fresh disc brake grease. Add fresh grease to your wheel bearings.
38. Reinstall and torque the 22mm rotor/hub nut to 21ft lbs. Spin the rotor and work the grease around. Loosen the nut. Tighten it around 15-19ft lbs.(I know the FSM talks about preload. Many of us do it another way).
39. Reinstall the nut retainer and cotter pin. (Use a new one.)
40. Reinstall and torque the 17mm torque plate nuts to 47ft lbs.
41. Reinstall the caliper and tighten the 12mm caliper bolt to 15ft lbs.
42. Reinstall your wheel and torque the lug nuts.
43. Bounce the front bumper and test drive in a safe area.
44-46. Enjoy, drink, and laugh.
Easy and quick eh?