Bill R has provided an excellent way to remove control arms. The link is floating around somewhere. Anyway, I went to my local workshop today to install the other side of my RRT thrust arm. I had air tools at my mercy (a kick arse snap-on rattle gun). This piece of equipment makes life so easy. So i put her up on some jack stands and started going to work. About 5 minutes later the workshop manager (Anthony) comes over and says "What are you doing that for?, your doing it the hard way!". I replied "No I'm not, this is the easiest way". I was just about do undo the 3 19mm bolts underneath the strut when he says "Get out of the way". Okay then, I think, do the work for me!

The thustarm balljoint nut came off, then he proceeded to wack it out with a hammer, it tool 4 or 5 thuds and it was removed. damm that was easy. The new arm with a nylock nut went on with no worries. He had to lever the arm a bit with a long bar. I just watched. It took about 50 mins all up to do one thust arm. I didn't torque any of the bolts with a torque wrench, the rattle gun did all the work except for the spherical bushing bolt for which I couldn't get to. I can't believe my front end in without clunks now.

The spherical bushings make the front end about 20% firmer, meaning you can feel bumps in the road a lot more. It's hard to tell about performance and cornering ability becasue I have no places on the street to really test them out. The balljoint was so bad on the old arm, the boot was worn and there was no grease around the balljoint.

Do other members on here have the same experience? Is this method good, bad or what? Tell me your opinions!