Rear link arm help needed.

Hi all. Im hoping that someone may be able to point me in the right direction to getting my td5 back on the road please.

Yesterday I fitted a new offside rear drop link only due to the fact that the old one had split boots. The job was easy , but when I drove the car last night, the first corner I went round there was a almighty bang.
The new link arm has broken so im now going to fit a genuine link arm instead, but the trouble I now have is the rear ace arm is all the way up and Ive tried leaving it down but it wont move.

Do I have to depressurise the ace system ? and if so , how ? or is there a trick of the trade for this problem ??

Ive searched this forum and found that a couple of people have had the same problem, but have not posted how they got around it.
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Well as it happens that happened to mine, but the ACE arm was the other way. So I used a few wooden blocks & a jack to put it back in line. I never de-pressurised the system & have had not faults whatsoever. Those cheap **** link arms never work. OEM or genuine are the way to go.

Funny thing is that it would have passed an MOT before it came apart yet your link with split boots wouldn't have. Wheres the sense in that? If I were you I would get on to trading standards to report the crap part. How could anyone justify selling **** like that?