<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Linda: </div><div><br></div><div>I bought a ball joint kit from Harbor Freight, found complete instructions online, and did my Ford Ranger myself. It really wasn't all that difficult. I marked the parts with a chisel so I could get them realigned as I put them back together. Bought the parts from Advanced Auto. Between the online instructions and the shop manual, I managed ok.<br></div><div><br></div><div>After the job, I took the truck to a tire service center to have the front end aligned (required after a ball joint job). I was sitting in the waiting room when the mechanic came into the room and boomed out, "Who did that ball joint job on your truck?" I thought, "Oh hell, what did I do wrong?" to myself. I weakly said, "I did!", He made the A-OK sign with his hand and said "It's perfect!".<br></div><div><br></div><div>As far as getting the job done, Pep Boys is one of the last places I would have the job priced. My son took his car to them years ago to have the OBDI plugged in and checked--a service Auto Zone and Advanced Auto do for free. They charged him in the neighborhood of $90 to do it. <br></div><div><br></div><div>--David C.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Linda Grunthaner via Spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net><br><b>To: </b>"Spridget list" <Spridgets@autox.team.net><br><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, May 3, 2015 5:12:39 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[Spridgets] Not LBC, little truck, Pep Boys $1, 200. to install ball joints?????<br><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">List,<div>I want to install the upper ball joints in my 1985 Nissan 720 pickup (1 owner family truck from CA), I called Pep Boys just to see if it is in my budget to outsource and they want $1,200 to install just upper ball joints. I can't imagine why it should cost so much to remove a castle nut and 4 small bolts is there something that I am missing? Is there some special tool for it to cost over a grand to install? I just want to check before I take her apart. </div><div><div><div>Thanks guys,</div><div>Lin<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:small">"Pay if forward" in honor of Frank Clarici III, Spritenut</span><br></div></div>
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