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you can put it up on lifts u want to grab the tire and shake it up and down and side to side and look for excessice play, a helper may be needed to look for play, worn cracked grease boots will quicken the wear of the ball joints. u should put a bit of mussle into this as i have seen ball joints barely move but when u pull them they pretty much fall apart. u can also buy a grease gun and fill the joints till the rubber boot just barely expands a dry joint has much more friction and will fail.
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