Excellent original post. I just replaced my inner and outer tie rods, as well as the ball joints, all of which was easy. My only advice is as follows:
1. To remove the inner tie rods, crank the steering over all the way to move the inner tie rod into view. Makes it easy.
2. One of the outer tie rods would not come off because the rod taper would spin. Since the nut went down several threads before jamming, I was able to cut through the taper with my thin pneumatic cut-off disk. Easy to do.
3. On the ball joints, just follow the original instructions, but no need to use spring compressors. I simply pried down the lower control arm with the pickle fork enough to remove and replace the ball joints. To get the nuts off of the ball joints, I used the pickle fork and a 3 pound sledge hammer to wedge the fork against the taper enough to keep it from turning.
What a difference in steering all of this made. At 232K miles, you do not notice the gradual deterioration of the steering control over time. Doing the entire job for a first timer will take not more than 3 hours, and it is worth every dime and time that you spend.