i'm glad the ball joints came off easy for you, they can be a real pain.
sometimes you can take a nut and thread it halfway on to the tie rod joint and the hit the nut with the hammer and as long as you don't have to really lay into it with the hammer it can pop it loose and save the threads. 
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'51 F100, backhalf with a narrowed 9 and coil overs, 18.5" mickeys, monte front clip, +400" sbc in the works
'05 1500 Crew Cab
RIP
'84 swb 5/7 drop, solid cammed 408 w/ fully ported dart heads, th350 w/ 10 inch hughes, 12 bolt w/ 3.73 richmonds and a locker
'80 swb 4x4 in progress: 7" lift, 350 th350/np205, d44 and 1.5" ORD tie rod, 14BFF w/discs , armored diff covers, 40" MTR's
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