tie rods etc was RE: [Shotimes] SHO Shop closed?

[Ian Fisher]

The only nuts and bolts I ever replace as a rule of
thumb are the halfshaft retaining nuts but they
usually come with reman halfshafts. If you don't get
new halfshafts, get them from Ford. It's always a good
idea to have the LCA to spindle pinch bolts and nuts
on hand as it's easy to strip the splines on the OEM
ones. They are also available at Ford.

Strut Pinch bolts should be replaced but I have
loctited my old ones with blue loctite.

Castle nuts should be reusable. Get new cotter pins.

Do get yourself a tie rod end remover from a local
auto parts store. They are cheap and well worth it. If
you use a hammer to remove the tie rod end, you may
disconnect the ball joint inside which is a bad thing.

That's all I can think of at the moment.

Ian

--- "Hartberger, Jason M.  AT3"
<hartbejm@roosevelt.navy.mil> wrote:

> new nuts new nuts new nuts new nuts new nuts. I
> can't stress this enough. I
> didn't use new nuts (castle nut for tie rods
> especially, pinch bolts), and
> I'm regretting it now. I'm installing new front
> endlinks for my swaybar (the
> ball joints are toast on the ones I have now), and
> while I'm down there I'm
> gonna put new nuts on everything. Oh, btw, thanks
> again George! For the
> great explanation on the struts. Everything really
> made sense once I finally
> got down there, and after replacing that damned LH
> half-shaft, I'm *really*
> good at front suspensions! lol.
> 
> But anyway, yeah, get new pinch bolts and castle
> nuts. and cotter pins.
> Also, you'll wanna get new LCA-SF (subframe),
> LCA-TSR(tension strut rod),
> and TSR-SF bushings. NAPA carries them, but you can
> go with TPR for added
> stiffness. New bushings really make a world of
> difference... I think almost
> as much as new struts! ok, maybe not, but you get
> the point.
> 
> Make damned sure you don't overextend (pull out)
> that halfshaft while you
> have the LCA out. Bad things will happen, and you'll
> be tearing apart a lot
> more than the LCAs.
> 
> //
> Jason
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Curtises [mailto:curtis622@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 3:09 PM
> To: shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: [Shotimes] SHO Shop closed?
> 
> 
> (snip)
> I intend to tackle the lower control arms and outer
> tie rod ends on my own.
> !
> All suggestions greatly appreciated. 
> 
> Damon
> '90 MTX "TWNSDAD"
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