I need to replace lower ball joint on GTA and was wondering how hard it is and the procedure? I have done them on cars without struts. But have never done them with strut front ends.

 

http://fl-thirdgen.org/balljointreplacement.html

 

yes this is the right way to do it...
last time i did a pressed balljoint it took me some times to pop it out and but it in, because i'm not very strong, but that's how i do, exept i use a floor jack and a big socket instead (so it pushes on the bottom of balljoint around the zerk hole) of the bottle jack, if you but in a greasable balljoint you dont want to mess the grease fitting hole!!! happend to me once, but used a tap and it was fix...

 

i just did my ball joints over the winter and wrote up a little article on it too. http://ukrainetrain21.tripod.com/ukrainetrain/id20.html

 

UT, thanks for the article!! That picture of using the balljoint press to install a bushing is great!!

 

Thanks alot for the info. Looks like an easy job. Hopefuly I will get on this on the weekend.

 

I used the method from mmr23s link just a few weeks ago and it worked great. I even used an old hydraulic jack instead of a bottle jack and everything went fine.. No special tools used other than pickle fork to seperate the spindle from the old ball joint

 

yeah. i modified the text to read use a socket the same size so not to damage the thread hole for the zerk fitting. just did another car 2 days ago. 1.5 hours.