I feel your pain, that happened to me after hours of labor on a 72 cad that i did ball joints on. Next time i do it i plan to just put one or two squirts of grease and let it go. As far as what i did with that car when it happened....after i stopped raging around the car like a physcho i put the rest of it together and drove it. Worked fine until i pulled the motor and junked the car two years later.