Upper control arm bushing - 89 S10

The manual shows several special tools needed to press out and in the bushing and ball joint in order to replace the upper control arm bushings. Can this be done with the more common DIYer tools, like a hammer. How hard a job is it? Anyone done it without the special tools?

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If you have a big enough socket, you can use a socket to drive the bushings in. If you can get a good swing you can pop the upper ball joint loose by hitting the spindle adjacent to the ball joint stud, make sure you only loosen the ball joint castle nut a couple of turns until the joint is broke. If you have a good arm and a good vice you can remove the upper control arm bushings with blunted 1" wide chisel. If you have an air hammer, you can use a blunted curved muffler chisel to get them out. If the inner steel sleeve has rusted to the A-arm shaft your in for a hell of a fight. This is one of those jobs that if you don't have air tools, take it some where, or perhaps you can remove the A-arms and then take them somewhere and have the bushings replaced. When done your still going to have to take it somewhere to get it aligned. Whitelightning

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Thanks

-- Elbridge Gerry, of Massachusetts:

"What, sir, is the use of militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. . . Whenever Government means to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise a standing army upon its ruins." -- Debate, U.S. House of Representatives, August 17, 1789

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