Well after about 5 hours and three drilled out bolts later I replaced my driver's lower ball joint on my 1999 Malibu.

It had a ripped boot and was making a clunk sound when stopping and starting from dead stop.

This is after having the front frame replaced with a used one about 8 months ago.

I just want the 1999 Malibu I own is one of my harder cars to own.
In for a penny in for a pound as they say.

I have 92K miles or so and hope to get another 2 years and 24K out of it.
3.1 J motor.

I hope yours is better then mine.
Part of the April National car care month.

Good job on the repair. I had a '98 3.1L about ten years ago I used as my commuter car. I put 142,000 trouble free miles on it.

Well like I said this is hard car for me.
This did not fix the cluck when starting from a dead stop.
The boot was ripped and the joint felt lose when I pulled it out BUT it still is madding when 5 hours does not fix the problem.

Will open new thread to talk about it.