Cool, my buddy works at a dealership and offered to help me out with the joints but I'd rather do it myself if I could rather than bugging him with it.

So if the upper ball joints are bad, you have to replace the whole control arm?... if that's the case then I'm just gonna get the Skunk2 Camber kit that comes with the adjustable control arms.

 

wow so its possible to remove and install new ones with the compression tool? I just tore mine with the incorrect tool from Autozone when replaceing my axles. Stupid Autozone damn morons

 

The only specialized tool that I used was a ball joint fork. Other than that, I used a hammer and a large socket (as posted above) to remove the lower balljoint from the hub. There's a metal ring on the inside of the spindle that needs to come out, but will pop off when a flathead is used on it. With that off, you can see how the balljoint comes out.

The upper 2 in the A arm are not replaceable and you must replace the whole A arm to get new upper balljoints.

hih

 

very well said westcoast style... i agree with u.. i just used a hammer and big socker.... its not hard at all to change out axles...

 

I was talking about ball joints :ugh:

 

oh.. ...hehe... thats what i meant...