John, I will loan you the Harbor Freight ball joint tool set that I used. I
put the big c-clamp part of it in a vise and pressed the old ones out and
new ones in in an hour or so, front and rear. Not a big deal. It comes with
the collars and such that press the bushings out and back in. It takes some
fiddling to get the right pieces strung together for a certain task but not
too bad.

Jim

On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 12:42 PM Neil N <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:

> > .... Can tthe lower ones be done
> > first (by a shop) and the later the uppers done by me?
>
>
> This is what I did. Upper ball joint R&R is easy to do.
> Would suggest using a shop that will press the new
> lower ball joints in. The shop that did mine basically pounded them in
> using bits of pipe.
> That worked, but I think the right way to do this is to use a press of
> some kind.
>
> Neil.
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