What gives??

[mac71ss]

I know my upper ball joints won't. Ok here is the senierio i got new wheels coming will be in next week. I already done some measurements and the front of the car has to be lowered are the fender gap will be awful. So to get me by untill the winter i was goin to cut the coil springs down. I have a 71 nova with factory drum brakes. I pop the Lower ball joint loose but i can't get the lca down because it catches on the backing plate of the drum. So i tried to split the top ball joint and i rammed the my craftsman ball joint spliter until you could not go any further and it would not give. I am new to this so any help would be greatly appreciated. At this point i'm .