Well I finally gathered enough courage to do the lower ball joint on my car. I had planned to get the spindle knuckle out( on which the ball joint is pressed) then take it to a shop for removing and replacing the old one( NAPA guy told me 70 bucks for the pair).

All went fine as planned except at the last step - The connection between the outer end of lower control arm to the spindle knuckle could not be separated. The lowwer ball joint stud that fastens these 2 was really stubbornly stuck into the splindle knuckle. tries every thing including the MB tool but it will not work. So much for the MB tool.
Got a pickle or split fork separator. Tried that too and no use. I hammered on it like crazy. and nothing worked. Finally got a butane torch and heated and cooled several times and still no go.
I was really frustrated used prayer and curses and nothing worked. Finally used my Physics. Wedged the fork splitter as deeep as I can between the spindle knuckle and lower ball joint.
Hammered it till it got stuck there. Then used an additional hydraulic jack under the outer end of the tool fork. And started jacking up. Also kepr hammering the fork a bit so that it stays stuck in there. The car started lifting a bit and just when I thought this too wont work, A big pop and the separation.
OH BOY THANK GOD. This worked. I Thanked my physics teacher and God.
Took 5 hours to get driver side spindle out. But this way I got good at it.
The passenger side spindle got out in 1 hour. Same improvized method. The MB special tools did not do a thing for me. And folks pay 90 bucks or more for this ball joint tool separator. I dont know why. The butane torche used on both side.

Now off to the NAPA guy on Tuesday for R and R of ball joint. Then the reassemly.

What a day it has been my hands hurt my back hurts my ears hurt from the sound of hammering and a small burn on finger from hot spindle(minor). Going to take 3 Advil and going to sleep now.

Thanks for reading. Hope this helps someone in future.

MVK :p

I went thru all those faces and many more today. If needed I would do the job even in future cose its the Feeling of satifaction that is priceless.

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1985 300D Turbo 179,000miles