Lower Ball Joint/Steering Arm Removal Advice Needed

Use the pickle fork. you will not damage anything. You will need to replace the inner and outer tie rods anyway. same for the lower ball joint. it looks shot as well. use the pickle there too. go straight in, the wedge part of the pickle fork will separate the two pieces...

make sure you take off the castle nut off both pieces...sometimes you can loosen the nut all the way to the top of the threads, and hit the nut with a hammer to separate the ties rods and lower ball joint...