-- lifetime warranty upper ball joints may be purchased at Autozone.com for $20 each. Can I use a Harbor Freight Ball Joint Press on the upper control arm ball joints, in situ, with success? I see Loewent (for one) cautioned here some time ago that the upper control arms are rather flimsy and this was a somewhat risky route to go. As has been well documented on the net, OEM Honda parts dealers sell only the entire upper control arm for around $110 each.
-- one alternative is to buy a new upper control arm with of course new bushings and new ball joints. Doggone Autozone sells these at prices the same as the OEM part (around $110 per arm). Ebay has aftermarket ones for around $30 each, but no warranty as far as I can tell. One other advantage of all new upper control arms is the two new bushings on each arm, too.
-- will the ball joint press kit at
-- is there a grease connection for all the BJ boots? I see reference to this in the manuals but this connection is not obvious to me.
-- what grease should be used on the BJs?
For one thing, I am hoping replacement of the BJs will correct an alignment problem the car has. The problem has been around since before I replaced all the lower control arm bushings a few years ago. The shop that did the alignment last year suggested a bent front lower control arm but probably did not elaborate since so many possibilities exist. The front lower control arms are not the least bit obviously bent.