Posted by Gambles on March 03, 2017 at 04:01:00 from (24.246.215.127):
In Reply to: Re: Tie rod wisdom posted by ASEguy on March 03, 2017 at 02:31:29:
That's what is printed in the repair manuals, and you hope you get close, but you also need to look at it after you are done to make sure, especially with a questionable country-of-origin on today's parts. About a week ago, I finished a complete front end rebuild on my kid's RWD Thunderbird. Complete, as in upper and lower control arms w/ball joints, links, tie rods, the whole works. For the tie rods, the left side was 30 turns, the right side was 31, exactly as what I took off. When I was ready to drive to the alignment shop (30 minutes away), I could see it had a really bad toe out and as I drove the gravel road to to the highway, I almost couldn't keep it on the road. By the time I got to the alignment shop, the tires were chirping and I must have taken 5K miles off the tires, although they are needing replacement anyway. For the OP's old chevy truck, I would at least have them set the toe in/toe out.
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