Any lube that would stop front suspension squeaking?

Ken71Twister said

I’ve never worked on this part of the car and I’m no longer a young man. If it needs a rebuild - is it something that a novice could do after buying the necessary parts? I realize that I’d need to have the car professionally aligned after doing this. I’m also wondering how many hours this task might take if I’m able to rent space on a lift at a near-by military base.

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if you have basic mechanical skills, yeah you could tackle it. but go in knowing that it's bone crushing knuckle busting work that will slap *** wear you out.

the only special tools you'll need are for the upper ball joints, but you can rent the socket. the lower control arm bushing r&r is probably best left to a specialist, unless you have access to a press and know your way around those kinds of things you can **** up more than you can fix right quick. for the upper control arm bushing you can fashion a removal and install tool out of some washers and pipe.

i don't know how quick you are with the polished steel, but figure probably 2hrs to tear down. 2hrs to clean, inspect and R&R balljoints and bushings and then probably 3~4 hrs to reassemble. assuming nothing's broke, froze up or busted off.