republic

This was the first time I have removed inners tie rods from on a car with rack and pinion. I didn't take the rivets out first and did not hold the rack with a wrench while loosening them. Anyone else ever do this? what's the potential damage?

projectresto83

I did it on my 93...Had no issue from it....

republic

Thanks for the reply. I checked the threads and they were ok and used a crescent wrench to hold the rack while I tightened the new tie rods.

Regards

Fink

What rivets are you talking about? All you do is take the outter tie rod off the spindle, loosen the inner, remove the outter, replace outter on new inner. Install inner on rack and pinion then reinstall outter on spindle.

Easy peezy lemon squeezy

republic

The inners have either an aluminum rivet or roll pin depending on year.