Front End Rebuild?

[FreeWilly!]

So I was greasing the front end of my truck yesterday and I noticed some cracking in the upper ball joints on my truck. The bj's are oem and have 124k miles on them but no play at all. But since the boots are cracking, I am thinking it's worth replacing them.

I was also thinking that since I'm in there to replace the upper bj's I might as well do lowers. The passenger side lower bj has been replacement with a bolt in Moog about 50k miles ago. There is not a large cost difference parts wise between buying just the lower ball joint and new lower control arms.

Is it worth replacing just the lower ball joint instead of replacing the whole arm? I don't have air tools to be able to chisel out the rivets on the driver side lower which has me leaning towards all new arms but I haven't used a coil spring compressor before either.


Truck in question is a 05 Silverado 2wd with a 7" Procomp Lift

 

[Khaos]

Spring compressors are pretty straight forward and easy to use. I hadn't touched one before doing the drop on my truck and it went smoothly. If the price is close, I'd do all new arms. You probably get the bushings with the new arms anyway.

 

[FreeWilly!]

Spring compressors are pretty straight forward and easy to use. I hadn't touched one before doing the drop on my truck and it went smoothly. If the price is close, I'd do all new arms. You probably get the bushings with the new arms anyway.

New arms on Rock Auto are $40 more per side. I figure that's worth it for not having to deal with drilling out the rivets?

I'd rather do it myself with help from a buddy compared to spending a shit ton to have a shop do it.

 

[Cleanoh4]

For only $80 more and and new bushings. I'd say its win/win

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