I cant tell which piece you're talking about, but I just replaced the bushing and ball joint on the bigger control arm closest to the front of the X (I have a '00 also). We tried a pickle fork first, but it wasn't even close so I removed the ball joint still attached to the arm, you have to remove 2 reverse torx bolts that came out rather easy. Then with the arm in a vice it took a welding torch to get the end red hot before pounding on the pickle fork about 50 times broke the ball joint free. It has a tapered end on it and was not cooperative.