Front Lower Ball Joint Removal

joules"Racing is Life, anything before or after is just waiting" - Steve McQueen

I seem to have a real stubborn lower front ball joint to remove and don't want to use a pickle fork separator for fear of damaging the dust seal any further. I tried a tie rod separator, (the puller type) and that won't seem to touch it and wants to spread the lower jaws after I get too much pressure on it. The trouble is to get anything heavier in there is going to be a problem. Any suggestions? Are replacement dust boots available if I destroy it during removal?

That's the short story, actually, this all came about as I have been removing the shock spacers. I was on my last one, but the lower shock through bolt is seized in the bushing center so I thought it'd be easiest to remove the shock and lower A -arm to separate the two...how wrong I was!

Thanks
Julian

2/19/063:05 PM

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