I've got one of those presses. I've done mine twice over the last 10 years and I found that I had to grind a section of the tool away so it would sit square on the rose joints or it wouldn't press them in straight.

That's very common on the cheaper units. The trick is to look at reviews to confirm works with your exact chassis number.


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Thanks guys,

So no (cheap) tool to suggest that people have used and works ok?

The job does look like a PITA.

Job wasn't terrible. If you have an angle grinder to fine tune the cup of the tool nothing to worry about. Would be good to have some thrust bushing in case the bearing self destructs

I replaced the rose ball joint with a ebay tool set. It worked. The tool is bent now. Second ball joint was tough getting out.

It's not that bad. The PITA is changing the swing arm bushings. I've done it twice. Once I took the swing arms to a machine shop and had them pressed out and new in. Second time I bought a special tool and did it myself. That was a real PITA an it was cheaper having the machine shop do it than the tool.