Did you find the need to apply heat at knuckle where lower ball joint seats?
This might expand the metal allowing easier removal of ball joint?

I know folks have used that tool w/o the need to apply heat but
IIRC, someone suggested this can help.

Neil.

On 1/10/16, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

--
Neil n

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