So it's a thing I have always liked doing. Taking pictures of work and posting them up to show others it's really not so hard. My lower balljoints on the straight arms were moving alot making a sucking noise. I got new ones from Autozone for around $95 for both sides. They install in less than 30 minutes a side if you're good at this, but shouldn't take more than a hour. You need a pickle fork aka balljoint seperator and a 21mm wrench for the ball joint nut since a socket won't fit and I recommend a 17mm 1/2" socket and breaker bar and 17mm wrench or ratchet for removing and breaking loose the strut at the lca and some wd40:)

Awesome!

Put it in the wiki!

Originally posted by teklein
Awesome! Put it in the wiki!

I don't know how to do that. And it's not really all that great that it would help someone without a clue. It should be noted that the curved LCA ball joints were fine, so I geuss the ones I replaced wear out first?

Nice, have anyone replaced the upper balljoints. This would for those wanting to replace upper and lower at same time.

The uppers don't wear out like the lowers and they are easy. Only time saved is wheel removal. It getts spendy if you do all 3 up front at once. The curved lowers seem to cost $100-150 each and I think the uppers are even more.

Originally posted by dalesmitsu
Nice, have anyone replaced the upper balljoints. This would for those wanting to replace upper and lower at same time.

You can buy just the balljoint for the front uppers, very very cheap! And pretty easy install, just a big c-clip.

Good to know

Originally posted by TheRedBarren
You can buy just the balljoint for the front uppers, very very cheap! And pretty easy install, just a big c-clip.

Is there a write up for this? And another question, would it be better to press the bottom Ball Joint in?

Press it into what? The lower ball joints are a part of the control arms and not serviceable.

And the taper fit is how it mounts to the knuckle with a locknut.

Pressing them into the knuckle to get it really tight. Just asking if you could or if anyone did it and I felt tight. Do they press them in when they where put together in the factory?

I am still confused what you are trying achieve by doing this. The ball joint stud fits in the taper of the knuckle and torqued down. Putting it in a press would not physically do anything except make more work for you because of fitting the assembly into a press.

No. The other post concerning pressing them in was by redbarren, He was mentioning its CHEAP if you replace the Upper Control Arm Balljoints, by simply pressing them out. NOT FOR LCA's.

LCA's balljoints are a single piece, at some point fitted with joints, and yes probably pressed in, something you can do, Hell no! Those things are so tough, the STUD will pop out of the balljoint before the whole unit breaks or bust's through the bottom.

I know I'm not the first that had it happen, I'm telling you, the whole balljoint was out of the Control Arm, nice bowl in the bottom of the arm from where it had been wearing awhile. Control arm hanging, yet balljoint still bolted up. Haha, fun ass times. Oh yeah guys, this happened while driving, just after getting off a major Highway.

Needless to say, my Pop's was pretty shocked when I brought home the LCA & Joint not-so-stationary anymore. Haha, enough thread jacking. Sorry.

Jeff.