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PaJon 05-11-2010 09:59 AM

93 300D tie rod out of threads, what to do?
 
Last night I was doing an alignment on Grumpy. The left side I set for zero toe but ran out of threads on the right side. I still need to remove 1/8" toe in on that side. It looks like the center rod has no adjustment at all. All the joints on the rods are good. What can I do to correct this?

vstech 05-11-2010 10:09 AM

is anything bent?
I'd spin the opposite side out and give yourself some adjustment room.
I have done NOTHING with alignment on a 124, so I don't know if this is possible. (time for a good bit of playing under my parts car!

PaJon 05-11-2010 10:19 AM

Nothing looks bent. If I adjust the other side to give me adjustment on the right side my wheel will not be centered. Other than the body being bent what else would cause this? Is it possible to shorten a rod by 1/4" ?

vstech 05-11-2010 10:21 AM

I'd rotate the wheel a full turn, then adjust everything to match. I'd not cut anything. something is out of whack if you have no adjustment left.

babymog 05-11-2010 10:27 AM

Start with centering the steering box, IIRC there is a thread here showing which bolt to remove and stick in a longer bolt, ... there is a centering pin location in the steering box.

It is possible that someone removed the wheel and had it off-center, simply corrected using the tie-rod adjustments.

This is actually fairly important as the steering box is designed to have no play on-center, but off-center it has play. If your box is not properly centered when you are driving straight, ... you can have some play-induced wander.

LarryBible 05-11-2010 10:34 AM

babymog is on it. By turning the sleeves on each side the same direction the same number of turns, you will turn the position of the steering wheel without effecting toe. As he says, it is the STEERING BOX that must be centered. At the center point of the steering box, there is less slack in the box than there is when it is off to either side of center position.

On a regular old American car, you could center the wheel after setting the toe by turning both sleeves equally in the same direction. This got some folks confused because the steering box would then often be off the center position.


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