[Jerryrig]

While having an awesome time climbing around between the drive and tag wheels to do some leak checking above the transmission for an air leak, I noticed a couple of oddities on the drag link bar.  On my coach, there is no zerk fittings on the ball joints at either end and unfortunately both boots have cracked and failed over time.  My plan, such as it is, is to purchase some aftermarket boots and IF the ball joints are still good, to just replace the boots.  If the ball joint is not good, then there seems to be a couple of options.  I could try and have new ball joints pressed in or it is a new drag link bar from Newell ( a little pricey).  

Has anyone else run into this?  Are the ball joints in the drag link replaceable?  Seems like they should be, just like on my old '54 Ford F100...Okay, that may be a stretch.  Has anyone added zerk fittings to the ball joints?

Here is a couple of photos showing the link bar and the boots.