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Ball Joint: Disassembly

Remove the control arm. See CONTROL ARM .
Drill off the heads of the two rivets with a 12 mm (.47") drill bit. See Fig 1 .
Punch out the rivets with a drift.

Fig 1: Drilling Off The Heads Of The Rivets
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