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Making Heads and Tails of Tie Rod Ends
Hello,
Part of re-baselining and solving whatever is going on with my suspension, I want to DIY the steering components. Ill plan to do an idler arm rebuild, and then want to do the center link and the tie rods. Since mine is a desert car that is corrosion free, Id like to just buy the ends. But they are very confusing, short, long, threaded one way or another. Can someone help explain what I need and make heads or tails of it? The Meyle offerings on APE for example show left handed thread, left handed thread short, right handed thread, right handed thread long. Maybe its just silly, but the pictures of the ends look like the finish and quality of say, meyle ends are better than the meyle complete arm... Thanks!
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If you take a inner and outer tie rod end and put a adjustment sleeve inbetween them the threads have to be opposite (left and right hand). assuming this is for you cd. mercedes updated the tie rods mid production run and it would be beneficial to you to run down to your local mercedes dealer and try to get a exploded diagram with some part numbers (and maybe some prices for the sake of having them).
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You need two left and two right hand threads. No idea on the short/long, news to me.
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Yes, you have a left and right thread on each end, this facilitates alignment, loosen each end and simply turn the center sleeve, you'll change the alignment.
Unknown on the different lengths, a guess would be a longer or shorter sleeve.
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