Jason,
Did you post a link to a specialized tool to remove hard to reach spring loaded hose clamps? We ran into an issue tonight where coolant needed to be drained and the radiator drain appeared to be stuck. Not wanting to break the darn thing, I decided to pull the lower radiator hose. Nothing I had could reach the hose clamp tabs. So I thought screw that, we'll just remove the hose from the water pump housing. Crap same thing clamp tabs unreachable.
Did you post the link to that tool? If it wasn't you it would have been PRJ.