Removal & Installation (Bonneville, DeVille/Sixty-Special, Eighty-Eight, LeSabre, Ninety-Eight, Park Avenue)
- Raise and support vehicle. Remove wheel. Remove height sensor link (if equipped) for right ball joint replacement. Remove parking brake cable retaining clip for left ball joint replacement.
- Remove cotter pin and nut from outer end of suspension adjustment link. See Figure . Separate link from knuckle. Support control arm.
- Remove ball joint cotter pin and nut. Invert nut and install with flat portion facing upward. DO NOT tighten nut. Install Puller (J-34505 ) and separate ball joint from control arm by backing off inverted nut against puller.
- Using Clamp (J-9519-23 ), Screw (J-9519-18 ) and Adapters (J-9519-7 ) and (J-9519-17 ), press ball joint from control arm. See Fig 1 . To install, reverse removal procedure using clamp, screw and adapters. See Fig 1 .