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Yeah, the front bolts have that caged nut. What you did there is spot on.
At the ball joint ends, I had a similar problem to you recently, which I've never had before - the arms I fitted (skf branded) didn't have the little knobbles, and one of them just wanted to spin. I got it up to about 140Nm using the spanner and t45, which I settled for. I did have to faff about a bit to make sure the rubber boot wasn't wound up from the ball spinning. I think that so long as you've gone FT on the spanner, everything will be OK. Of course the correct torque would be better, though. You can sort of check the torque by setting your wrench low (100Nm maybe) and work up until it doesn't click any more.
Other things to try are; lash a jack handle to the spanner for extra leverage. Buy a crow's foot for the torque wrench. Buy an extension pipe that fits over the spanner.
Good luck
P.S. I've had plenty arms without knobbles on the ball joints before, this is just the first time I've had spinning issues.
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