Rhody-F150-Guy

I failed inspection and had the lower ball joints replaced on my 03 F150 XL. It cost $475. The Ford dealer quoted me around $850 for both upper and lower. If you have mechanical skills and can rent the tools that others have mentioned, you will save a lot of money.

Frank_Ford

I agree with the guys telling you to DIY. When I worked in a garage back in the early 70's the boss always used to say that doing ball joints were good for at least $80 per ball joint of profit or the customer paid about $100 to install a ball joint that cost about $15. I just checked on ebay for ball joint prices and you can get new upper ball joints with new control arm for about $40 each and the lower ball joint cost only about $20 each. The upper is really easy to change and you won't need any special tools because, with the new control arm, just remove the bolts an bolt in the new one. The lower is harder because you have to remove the ball joint from the lower "A" frame and will need a special tool for this. If you buy the lower ball joints from Autozone (for a little more money), they will loan you a ball joint removal tool for free. If you can find a buddy to help you, the job should be easier and it will only cost you some beers and steaks to have AFTER you get the job done. Don't be like me in my youth, however, and start drinking the beer before you get the job finish.

finalwest

I replaced mine when i lifted my truck. Definitely go with with Moog. As for easy..... Thats a relative term. Depending on the quality of press you get it could make things "relatively" easy or hard. Fail safe is to have a huge dead-blow hammer... Took me about 2 hours to do mine. Keep in mind that the top ball joints on my replace the entire A-Arm. Which also means if you are not too descent with alignments it will need to get redone.

Also Side note: I did work as a mechanic for a few years before i went in the military... That being said we had a ton of guys coming in all the time trying to get us to give them quotes on ball joints because Alignment shops love telling people they need ball joints when they dont. Its a way they can make more money out of you. Don't just throw parts at something. Have you lifted it to even check if you needed them? Does is squeak horrible when you turn or hit lots of bumps? Does it look like your tires are at some what of award angle? Just saying...... thats all....... Good Luck

2000MTZ

iTrader: (1)

Lol my lower left ball joint practically fell apart in my hand when I took it out. But definitely check it out, I've heard I need new ball joints 2 days after replacing them

Carcrazygts2

Like everyone else said, rent the tool from autozone. Look at rockauto for moog parts.

fordforlife0225

Op where are you at?

bdtaylor1979

If you don't want to or can't do them yourself, you can buy the parts yourself and take them to a shop and have them put on. I did that on a ford ranger I had and saved between $200-$300. I got a set of moog upper control arms with ball joints, lower ball joints and inner/outer tie rod ends on ebay for $189.90 with free shipping and paid $300 to have them installed. My original quote from the same shop, they wanted $115 a piece just for the upper control arms with ball joints.

osimic

^^This

NoCoolUserName

Buy the parts at Advance online, google promo codes for Advance and save 30% and go pick up the parts. Like I said in my earlier post, I took the easy way and just bought the control arm and ball joint, so I replaced the whole thing. It didnt take me long to change at all. Spend the money and get Moog.

pfoley12

Kentucky