Actually, the rods are pretty cheap. Tellico has the entire setup (tie rod
+ ends) for about $48. You may as well pick up the steering arm and ends,
too - they're $29.
--
Michael White "To protect people from the effects of folly is to
fill the world with fools." -Herbert Spencer, 1891

Mike Romain (romainm@sympatico.ca) wrote on Wednesday 16 July 2003 11:45 am:

> 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

 

I've started checking that everytime I change the oil. It happend to me not too
long ago....front end started shake'in real bad (Dead Wobble all the time) The
bolts were missing from the clamp! Sure would suck if that happend going down
the road.

Brian
88 YJ