Does anyone know where I can get ball joints pressed in/out for reasonable price? Everyone on thesamba says that $200 is a good price if you take them off yourself and $800 is good if you take it to a shop 
Maybe I'm cheap, but that is crazy!
I put ball joints on Homer myself, in the back yard, without a press or any special tools. Yeah, I know it's hard to believe, but I used to be able to do whatever needed to be done to put Homer back on the road. Here's what I did . . .
Since it was my daily driver at the time I wanted to minimize the downtime, so I got another beam and took all four control arms off of it. I used a side grinder and ground the cap side of each ball joint down to control arm. It took a LOOOOOOONG time. I could have done it quicker if I had a vice, but working with an old cooler as a workbench, and trying to keep both hands on the grinder, it goes slow. Once the cap side was cut off, I removed the ball/stud and threaded up hack saw blade through the inside of the opened ball joint and sawed away. That also took a LOOOOOOOOOOONG time. The trick is to cut through the ball joint housing without cutting into the control arm. The cut relieves the pressure from the interference fit, and lets you knock out what’s left of them with a small ball peen hammer.
I drove the new ones in with a 3 pound hammer. I used some old Ford rod caps to make a support underneath the control arm (sitting on my concrete sidewalk) and used a large socket as a driver. Make sure you start ‘em straight. They are directional. If you press them in wrong, they will bind or break when the control arms pivot.
When I got all four of them done, I jacked Homer’s front end off the ground and swapped out the control arms one side at a time. I adjusted the camber as best I could by sight. That was several years ago and I still haven’t taken it to the alignment shop. But for some odd reason, tires seem to wear out fast . . .
