TIe Rod/Ball Joint End - Where to buy

RICK IN GA · Mar 5, 2015

Took the 1841 Power Steering Cylinder apart and replaced the o-rings but would like to replace the hefty tie rod/ball joint end at each end. They are both similarly threaded with 7/8" on the Rod end as well as the tapered threaded stud end. I've searched online and gone to our NAPA distribution facility and am striking out. Moog has a handful but not what I am looking for. Anyone have any suggestions where to buy? Thanks RIck

Ultradog MN · Mar 5, 2015

I assume you've been to CNH.
This probably isn't what you want to hear but...
On 2000,3000s, etc. tie rods for a tractor with power steering are frightfully expensive. But the ball joint itself from a non PS tractor fits the steering arms on the box. So what I did is cut the old ball off and weld on a new one. If you could find a ball joint that the tapered stud fits your hole you could weld that onto your cylinder rod.
I did that on a 4000 I had too because I was too cheap to buy the right ball joints. New ones were $60 and I found some NOS ones at a junk place for $5 each and welded them on.
First photo is of a 3000 ps tierod with a new ball joint welded on. A little grinding, bondo and paint and it still looks/works good 10 years later.
Second photo is of the 4000 ball joint repair.

RICK IN GA · Mar 5, 2015

Those look pretty darn good. Mine are a bit larger and I think I need a manufacturer that does truck tie rod ends. These are 7/8 inch and seem like they shouldn't be that hard to find. I'm not ruling out a weld but I'd rather just find one new that may need to be machined. My CNH guys can't find anything on the part number. I haven't found any manufacturers at all yet other than Moog. NAPA has 4000+ results with a tie rod search but you can't narrow results in any way. So I would need several cold beverages to go through that. They don't even show sizes in the initial search results. I'd have to pull each on up one at a time. My distribution center only found two catalogs and those didn't cover those sizes. Probably need to post on the N page I seem to get more responses there.

dmbinva · Mar 6, 2015

(quoted from post at 16:03:27 03/05/15) Those look pretty darn good. Mine are a bit larger and I think I need a manufacturer that does truck tie rod ends. These are 7/8 inch and seem like they shouldn't be that hard to find. I'm not ruling out a weld but I'd rather just find one new that may need to be machined. My CNH guys can't find anything on the part number. I haven't found any manufacturers at all yet other than Moog. NAPA has 4000+ results with a tie rod search but you can't narrow results in any way. So I would need several cold beverages to go through that. They don't even show sizes in the initial search results. I'd have to pull each on up one at a time. My distribution center only found two catalogs and those didn't cover those sizes. Probably need to post on the N page I seem to get more responses there.

1-888-672-7876 try this # I have gotten some hard to ftnd parts from them

TIe Rod/Ball Joint End - Where to buy

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