Oh man... just what you needed.
Let it sit in the driveway, don't try to fix it yourself until you're
ready - we don't want your next posting to be "so I was fixing my tie rod
and now I have to type with a pencil in my mouth".
-Brian

"Mike Romain" <romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:3F158139.8E28F1AD@sympatico.ca...
: So here I am going to the doctor to have physio done on my torn up knee
: with a neck I cannot move at all and as I turn into the parking lot I
: get this screech like one brake has locked up.
:
: So I stop and get out and one wheel is point left with the other
: pointing right....
:
: I look under and the freaking tie rod is laying on the spring!!!
:
: The tie rod end that threads into the rod had fallen out of the rod.
: Grrrr...
:
: Looks like the bolt on the clamp let go and I guess the hollow tie rod
: has stretched enough that the threads on the tie rod end no longer grab
: anything. So I turn the wheels and get the end stuck back in and for
: sure I don't have a bolt the right size with me so I took a mini pare of
: vise grips and clamped them down on the clamp.
:
: It worked, I came home very slowly along the side roads.
:
: I will be willing to bet that stupid rod is one expensive puppy. :-(
:
: Mike
: 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
: 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's