About to tackle the upper and lower ball joints and the CV boots. I've removed things in the order I thought would be most helpful to me at the time. Quick side note, on the Amigo/Rodeo/Passport, you can't just take the knuckle off, you must disassemble the hub in order to even get to the brake discs. This makes the front brakes a several hour job (for me anyway) instead of an hour or two job.

Here I've disconnected the steering arm.


I've removed the caliper and hung it on a piece of wire attached to the shock tower. This relieves any tension on the brake lines that you leave attached.


This is a pickle fork (wife refers to it as a Dinglehopper) and it is used to separate ball joints. Remove the cotter pin from the bottom bolt of the ball joint and loosen the nut a bit, DO NOT REMOVE all the way. Place here:


Pound the pickle fork in with a sledge hammer. The ball joint won't usually just pop off, you'll have to pound and pound, long after you think you should have stopped before it will actually separate.


Once the joint separates, you can remove the bolts holding the plate to the upper control arm. Oh yeah, the pickle fork will ruin the boot on the ball joint, so have a new ball joint ready to install. There are other methods of removing ball joints (especially on unpowered axles) but since this is a 4wD, the front axle is in the way and a pickle fork is the preferred method.


Here is a shot of the driver side knuckle from the back, looking toward the front of the vehicle. You can see that I've temporarily reattached the upper ball joint, just to hold the knuckle in place while I work on the lower ball joint.


All the pounding kept vibrating the brake pads off, so I decided to remove the caliper bracket altogether. Then I decided to keep going with removing the hub and brake disc just to get it all out of the way to access the axle. The method shown in the photo is not the best way to hold the axle from spinning.


This method of holding the axle is easier on you, and doesn't risk damaging the threads with metal on metal contact.


Skipped a step here because the photo of me removing the snap ring was not in focus. Remove the three screws and then pull use a pick to loosen and remove the ring behind the screws.


Here are the components holding the hub and brake disc onto the knuckle.


Once those are out of the way, it's a simple removal of the three 13mm bolts to remove the disc shield.