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Broken throttle body ball stud. How do I fix?

I was a bit heavy handed while trying to pop the ball socket off the ball stud on the throttle body lever. The result is not pretty:



It seems I can't buy just the arm. I found a full TB on eBay for $150, but wow, that's one expensive mistake. I'm not sure I'm willing to pony up that much unless I give fixing it the old college try. Pelican sells the replacement ball socket, and I was thinking I could drill out the stud on the arm and put in a new ball stud.

Got some questions for the hive mind.

Are the ball studs 8mm? Where can I get one asap?

Where can I look for a replacement arm if replacing the ball stud wont work? Or am I stuck buying an entire Throttle Body?

Does anyone have an old TB they can sell me the arm/linkage off of?

What is the preferred method for popping these off? I did fine on the others, but this one of course snapped.

Thank you in advance for the help.
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