Thread: How to Reuse Tie Rod Ends

Here is a quick How to on reusing the tie rod ends. After you unscrew them usually the ball/rod (the part that has the thread) will spin on the tie rod end. Which will make it impossible to tighten.

The fix is quite simple, hold the ball/rod down with some vice grips, and thread on the castle nut. Using solvents like PB-Blaster will help greatly. After you get it threaded to the point where you can stick a cotter pin in, you can loosen the bolt back up and install the tie rod end into the knuckle.







Tighten it all down, install the cotter pin and your done .

Q: how do you get them off when they spin on the car?!

Jack up the control arm with the Ball joint/tie rod end which will put it in bind and allow you to loosen the bolt

bolt ≠ [castle] nut

^^^^ Hahahahaaha!! I was thinking the same thing!!

Way to copy/paste Vadim

P.S. That castle nut looks haggered

Get $14 iners and outers and be done.

This bitch is in there!! I try every thing time to being out the grinder and cut it off

trow a torch at it for awhile

Fixed



Copy and paste what? I wrote it from scratch :-P