Recent content by I<3Mud

Well i live in northern Fl... they don't care what you drive around here as long as the lights work and you don't speed... My tires stick way out, I have no CAT (did the cat delete the right way, no CEL) and my headlights have bright green LED halos... Hell you can even drive with your roof...

This insert... how does it work and what does it do? if the hole on the knuckle goes right through whats the needs for the insert? the only way i could see this being necessary is if the hole is tapered... and the inset reverses the taper... but that would involve drilling out the hole, correct...

Well i want to keep the upgraded tie rod... its pretty beefy.

I have disk brakes front and rear

I have one laying around collecting dust from my old rally car and i was wondering.... is there any reason to justify installing it on my rig? has anyone seen any uses of hydraulic hand brakes for offloading? maybe decent control? I can use it to lock the front end or rear end...

@MD21722, The es3095 part number is the stock inner tie rod which is not what i need as it is much smaller... the es3096 is LH... the es3096R is the RH version, which is what i need and it appears only rustys has this part... @Mark, as previously stated, the setup i have goes as fallows...

One more quick off the gun question... The outer tie rod end and drag link end go under the knuckle... Can i just flip the setup so the end joints go in from the top? like an OTK setup?

I'll prob wind up ordering it through rustys... Just wished it was readily available and under the lifetime warranty like every other part on my front end is.

Yes... The 3096 is the only one autozone carrys. They don't have a R or an L... They only have the one...

Hmm I may be calling rustys tomorrow.... The whole dang thing looks identical to this: http://www.rustysoffroad.com/rustys-tie-rod-hd-replacement-xj-tj-zj.html I wonder what they want for just the tie rod end... I don't suppose they're under a lifetime warranty like the rest of my front end. At...

On the 2848 and 2847 it seems like the ball joint shaft is 1/2" or bigger... I need it the size under 1/2" diameter... The factory sized diameter. The actual shank that goes into the tie rid bar needs to be 7/8" diameter

^hahaha I like this guy... I will post pics.... So basically as you know the outer tie rod attaches next to the wheel, it then is threaded into the tie rod bar (aka sleeve) which is not the oem one... Then the inner tie rid attaches to the drag link and is threaded into the the tie rid bar...

The 3096 is the factory zj tie rod for v8 models. It's plenty beefy. The stock other side is much smaller, that's not the one I need.

It's actually a ZJ but the entire front end is XJ based... I will post pics tomorrow

Look up on google "es3096 tie rod" as a picture reference... I need exactly that just with threads going the other direction