Any members near Sunderland able to change steering knuckle joints or lend me a press??

Hi guys I've just bought a Discovery II that has been stood for 2 years and the steering is stiff.
I've sourced the upper and lower ball joints (lemforder) and thought my local garage could put them in for me but they are not familiar with the job, don't have a tool and couldn't give me a fixed Price for it.

I also called Les Potts but they wanted silly money (in my humble opinion) in fact it took me ten minutes to convince the guy that it didn't need plugging in to the diagnostics (at an extra £8!!) to find out what was wrong!

Are there any members near Sunderland able to change steering knuckle joints or can anyone lend me a press? happy to pay the going rate.

Alternatively can anyone recommend a garage
Cheers Guys

I did mine recently, bought one of these to do it:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/381307409250?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT
That and a bit of brute force did the job nicely

Had you not bought them, I'd say take the whole thing to commercial propshafts, team valley.

Tromboman said:

I did mine recently, bought one of these to do it:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/381307409250?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT
That and a bit of brute force did the job nicely

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Hi I've looked at this and I was worried that it might not be up to the job as the hydraulic ones have two sides to share the forces. did it spring a little when you were using it? did you need to use heat?
Cheers

No need for heat on mine. It was a two man job though, one on the breaker bar to screw it down and one to stop the clamp rotating.