first things first you have to discharge the system...but...uhh...you "can't vent it into the atmosphere" <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='

'> ...then after that all you have to do is just unbolt shit. I removed the A/C on a 98 civic hatch...very easy.
-ryan