Remove the tire and wheel from your 1996 Mercury Grand Marquis. Remove the ball joint retaining nuts. Pound the ball joint out with a hammer. Reverse the process to install your new ball joint.
If you need to replace the lower ball joints, check your owners manual for instructions. The manual should show you the location and how to complete the repair.
Have the car checked at a wheel alignment shop.
Unless you have had anything replaced,i.e. ball joints, ect everything should be sealed
You can't repair worn out ball joints. Replace them with new ones.
Requires special equipment, like a press set for the lower ones, better to take it to a shop, since you'll have to have the suspension aligned anyway.
I haved a 98 and it ran me about three fifty. The parts should be about the same. 140 or so. But its the labor that will change a lot. It just depends on the shop.
Remove old ball joint. Reverse procedure to install new ball joint.
Grease zerts are on the steering arms and ball joints, tie rod ends, pitman arm, idler arm. Most times original Ford parts do not have grease zerts. Replacement jobber parts have grease zerts.
on my '00 C70, had tie rod ends, upper and lower ball joints and sway bar bushings replaced with no work to R&P
Approx.$ 500.00 from les schwab tires but that is in Idaho
ball jointscheck tire pressure, tires, if it shakes when you apply the brake its more than likely the rotors...if not then have a mechanic check out the ball joints.
the ball joints are not serviceable.