Ferris Bueller
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- Aug 15, 2007
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- Age
- 43
- Location
- Near St.Paul
- Transmission
- Automatic
On my 04 2wd 4 cylinder I replaced lower ball joints, rack bellows, inner/outer tie rods & 1 sway bar link. The inner tie rods screw into the ends of the steering rack shaft. The nut is about 1-7/16" and I don't have a wrench that big so I used a big jaw vise grip on it with a 16" pipe over the end. I tightened until the vise grip slipped. Is there a high torque setting for the inner tie rods? Also the steering rack shaft twisted some as I did this. Is that normal? I deliver pizza with this truck so it gets a lot of use braking and turning. It has 123,000 on it.