How do you remove the lower ball joint from a 95 Ford Contour?

Answer 1

With extreme prejudice. Seriously, you have to hate. The entire drivetrain and suspension have to come off. You need a compressor and an air hammer. If you see a thing, take it off.

If you want a short-cut that's back yard friendly, just take off the brake caliper and caliper bracket, should be a torx bit, forgot the size, maybe a T25 and 17mm, then remove the brake rotor. Unbolt the outer tie rod end and take it out of the suspension knuckle. Now you have two choices: you can either remove the strut and unbolt the lower ball joint from the suspension knuckle, which will require an impact gun for the strut tower nut and will also require removing the cv axle, which takes a 32mm socket for the axle nut, or you can just try to pry the ball joint out of the suspension knuckle and air chisel it out. The second option is probably what you'll need to do if you don't have a cavalcade of tools. But you still need an air compressor and an air hammer. You can try drilling out the studs that hold the lower ball joint in, but I wouldn't recommend it. Oh, you will need a T45 for the lower ball joint bolt. Only Ford. I want a car held together with bubble gum and hope over greedy engineering. Good luck.