Important: unscrew the upper ball joints while the control arms are still installed on the car. I had mine in a big vice bolted to a big metal table with my lead casting equipment on the bottom shelf and I was still dragging the table around my shop before the screw in ball joints cracked loose on my dart. Just did a dakota a few months ago and I needed ox/a heat and leaning hard on a 6’ cheater bar before the upper ball joints started unscrewing.

well i ended up having to remove the upper control arm, lower control arm and knuckle all together as an assembly because i could NOT get the lower ball joint to let loose from the control arm..Ive never had that issue before! I really need my lower control arm to rebuild for this but i dont know how i can separate it from those stubborn ball joints.. I literally beat the cast knuckle with a 10 pound sledge hammer while someone else stood on a 6 foot pry bar and they would not budge..