where am I going wrong?

:soapbox:well there is another hour of my life wasted I will never get back!, I finally got back to this after an entire weekend of building raised vegetable beds, lawn cutting, helping #1 son put his new 340 in his truck, looking after grand kids, and the list goes on, I went back to attempt to remove this spring at 8pm this evening and threw in the towel again at 9pm, I cant believe I have helped my son rebuild a 4 spd trans, install a v8 engine, re-seal a rear end, rebuild the front end, replace all the brakes on this car but I can not remove a stupid spring! I tried the screw trick, wedges, an arsenal of tools but every time I am close the damn thing just pops back on, I think I just need a different tool, the one I can almost get it off with is a small fork style snap on pry bar but its too round on the shaft so it pops off the spring, I think I need one that is flatter like a pry bar but it needs the fork to hook into the end of the spring where it goes over the stud on the pedal box, any way sorry for the rant, just had to vent a little!