How To: Replace the Inner Tie Rods

[jayalbertcars]

great job my friend but can i make a few comments first i am not a big fan of stricking the top of the outter tie rod you can damage it to were it can distort and not come thru the spindal support i recommend getting a heavy hammer and stricking the spindal support very hard where the tie rods goes thru this will shock the joint lose or get a tie rod joint fork they can be rented from auto zone i also recommend counting the number of threads after the outter tie rod is removed but not the jam nut this will give a point of refferance remember you will have to drive this car to the alingment shop and as for the inner dust boot clamp i have found that a large tie wrap works great it is easyer the get it under the vent tubes and i would coat the new outter tie rod threads with anti sieze compound remmember you will be serviceing these parts again it is always good to have every thing come apart nicely

[jayalbertcars]

i'm changing out mine right now,how did u stop the steering shaft from spinning when u r taking out the inner tie-rod?

what i dont understand it is only going to turn so far bring it out to the full turn on the side you are working on call me

[jayalbertcars]

if it has not been talked about i also recommend some lock tight on the threads on the inner tie rod i like the red it is a little easyer to get apart

[DA H.N.I.C.]

Great write up!!!!

[haist82]

ok here is what happened .rockauto.com told me that rwd tie-rods want fit on awd,jay and dealership told me there is no diff.so i bought em and put em in.here is what i had before
and here is what i put in today
now i dont think my old tie rods were bad...i don't c anything wrong with em,except one outer kinda stocks in one position when u push on it and wont go back in to the center position,the other one goes back in to the center when u push .my mistake was that when u jack the car up u need to put jack under ur control arm i think thats the name ,so u have weight on the wheel,not the frame like i did(thats what the guy at big-o tire told me)they told me that my front rim was bent,i dont c anything wrong with it,so they put it in the back.
now vibrations r gone it drives fine except one thing it feels like something is rubbing on something and it's not constant it has interval of like 2-3 sec,i dont c what that could b,the only thing i can think of is that i had two brand new tires on the back,and now after they switch rims i got one new upfront and one new in the back,gonna drive it like that for awhile and c whats gonna happen i guess.and i decided to buy new set of rims next winter coz what igot on right now is kinda trashed ,ride came with those.

[onelook]

You might be having an issue with your AWD. differences in overall tire diameter can really cause trouble with an AWD system and having different sizes in the front and back (new vs. old) could be the problem.

[haist82]

so swap the tires huh?

[haist82]

i took it back to big-o tire and they told me that the tire that they swapped before is making that noise coz my alignment was off before ,and now it's in the back and i can hear it(and before i couldn't hear it coz of the engine noise,i had it up front),i think they r full of shit and just dont wanna say that they dont know what's going on,coz i can feel it not just hear it.

[2006 Magnum]

Nice write up, bean for ya !!!!!!