This clamps around the ball joint's stud. In a perfect world, you could simply press down on the lower control arm and the stud would drop free of the strut. Well, our world isn't perfect ...

and a pickle fork and hammer were used to break the control arm free from the ball joint. The ball joint nut was removed, and the lower control arm shaft nut was unthreaded. The torsion bar clip ...

Although the ball joints are locked in place to the lower control arm, they can be replaced. General Motors does sell the ball joints separately at about $95 each, and I have seen quality ...

The 1973-87 C10s also used traditional control arm bushings and had five-lug disc brakes. All the lower A-arms looked the same, but the ball joints and outer tie rod ends are different depending ...

That’s because on your particular car, the control-arm bushing and one ball joint come as a set. Your car is unusual in that it has two lower ball joints for each front wheel. So if your guy ...

Vehicles Affected: Approximately 750 model-year 2020 Hyundai Elantra sedans The Problem: The lower control arm ball joint fasteners may have been insufficiently tightened, allowing the ball joint ...