Changing ball joints on 1969 el camino?

I was wondering how expensive and hard is it to change ball joints in a 1969 el camimo?|||Its not that bad. I check to see if they are bolted in the uppers control arm, if not then you will have to drill out the rivets holding them in. . If so then all you have to do is have the bottoms pressed in. Shop around by me in WI did it for 40 bucks. Make sure you look into ways to change them though. As you need to do it safely. Always use a chain through the coil spring with a padlock on it so in case the spring jumps out. All ya need is a jack and some hand tools to do this job besides a press.|||Hard, no. Dangerous - yes. Changing ball joints requires removing the potential energy contained in the spring as you free the joint. When I do it, I thread a tow chain through the spring, so that if the spring should attempt to liberate itself as I pop the ball joint with the fork, it cannot leave the car. A spring can kill - or seriously maim. Other than that, its a matter of jacking up the car, popping the joints with a pickle fork, and replacing.





Expense wise, for both sides, I%26#039;d expect at least 700 bucks for a mechanic to do it - more or less depending on your area and the additional parts that may need replacing/servicing. Generally, if you replace the ball joints on a classic car, you may want to go whole-hog and replace the bushings, shocks, brake lines, sway bar bushings and joints - in essence, doing a front-end rebuild.|||its not hard you will need what they call a pickel fork that spreads the ball joint out then you count how many turns it takes to turn it out the screw the new one in a big hammer a pickle fork and time is on your side if someone else can do it so can you give it what you got you can do it have a good time but then get it aligned