Ball joint help.

[swamp rat]

Well i hope i didn't screw myself too bad here but..

Installing my knuckles on the yoke, here's the steps i took.

1)Tightened the top nut just enough to allow the bottom joint taper to seat so i could tighten the lower joint to 75 Ft lbs.
2)Backed off the upper nut and took it off.
3)Installed castle bushing and torqued it to 50 ft lbs.
4) Reinstall top ball joint nut and torque to 100 Ft lbs.

The knuckle turns smoothly but feels kinda tight, not a #25 pull with a fish scale for sure, so i decided to remove the top nut as i wanted to loosen and re seat the sleeve to see if that would loosen it up, unfortunately the sleeve castle head stripped on me, i think i wasn't fully seated on it when i tried to back it off.

so i have a couple choices:

1) leave it and try driving with it.
2) try and pickle fork it back off with the adjusting sleeve in place.

Sigh! What do you guys think i should do to fix this??

Did i torque the top nut too much?

I was following this PDF.
http://www2.dana.com/pdf/5310-3.pdf



EDIT: Hey i just found my fish scale, it pulls at 27# pulling pressure, that is pretty close but my old ball joints did pull way easier, will these ball joints loosen up a bit as i drive?