Yet Another (uninteresting) Update
I’m making steady progress, or at least I feel like I am. Unfortunately the progress is not very interesting.
The Moog ball joints are installed. I tried using the Harbor Freight ball joint press, but that was a complete failure. So I decided to take the control arms to a local machine shop to have the old joints pressed out and the new ones pressed in. At the end, the total cost was $60 ($40 for the ball joints, and $20 for the labor). This is still half the price of buying new control arms with the ball joints already in them.
While I have the bumper cover off, I decided to tackle some rust on the upper and lower bumper supports. Right now, they are in my backyard waiting to dry. As with everything, I found some more rust behind the supports and below the radiator support. Luckily, it’s only surface rust, so I’m going to take a wire brush and sandpaper to it then shoot it with some primer and paint.
My horn is now finally fixed as well! It ended up just being the horn itself, so it was a easy fix.
After I get the new sway bar end links (I snapped one when doing the ball joints), an alignment and emissions and inspections testing are next on my list.