[jakeru]

So far the two ballsocket pieces I've inspected closely in this area seem to be great shape (except from being dirty and dry and in need of some grease, which I will do). The molded-in rubber vibration isolators do deflect under force, but this is by design, the rubber isn't torn or cracked, and don't look bad.

The plastic ballsocket liners although dirty and dry, seem nice and tight with no slop.

So I will clean them up, grease them with some badly needed DuPont Krytox PFPE grease, and reuse.