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08-30-2004, 11:44 AM
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Took the car out the other day and within a couple of blocks noticed my steering got really sloppy, almost an inch of play in the steering wheel. I was still close to home so I nursed it back to the shop. Started poking around the front suspension and found this...
driver's side inner tie rod to center link, no boot, no cotter pin and only about 3 threads holding it together. Good thing I didn't take it out on the highway and romp in it. That could have been really ugly. 
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08-30-2004, 11:44 AM
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Took the car out the other day and within a couple of blocks noticed my steering got really sloppy, almost an inch of play in the steering wheel. I was still close to home so I nursed it back to the shop. Started poking around the front suspension and found this...
driver's side inner tie rod to center link, no boot, no cotter pin and only about 3 threads holding it together. Good thing I didn't take it out on the highway and romp in it. That could have been really ugly.
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08-30-2004, 11:54 AM
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Glad you caught that.
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08-30-2004, 12:13 PM
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thats freakin scary!
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08-30-2004, 12:32 PM
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Had a similar experience with the '71. Was coming home from work on Friday night going down the freeway doing about 85. Something didn't feel right, and limped it home. Couldn't find anything wrong all weekend. Went to back it out of the driveway Monday morning and BAM! The upper ball joint on the driver's side completely shattered.
Got lucky that when the suspension collapsed that the tire went inward and didn't hit the fender, and more importantly didn't happen Friday night on the freeway. No more PST suspension crap for me.
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08-30-2004, 03:39 PM
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Where did the cotter pin go?
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08-30-2004, 07:50 PM
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Better make sure you take a good look at the center link...
Good chance the tapered hole is getting egg shaped.
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08-30-2004, 08:31 PM
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I don't know what happened to the cotter pin and boot, they used to be there. Anyway, the nut's cross-threaded onto the tie rod and the center link is definitely shot. I'd been planning on rebuilding the front end, so I've already got just about everything except the center link and inner tie rod ends. Guess I'll be depleting my car fund a little more than expected.
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09-03-2004, 07:00 PM
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I had something similar happen not long after we bought my son's 64 Lemans. He was complaining that the steering was really sloppy so I crawled under it and grabbed the idler arm to see how tight it was and the nuts that hold it to the frame were so loose that it almost came off in my hand! The centerlink was definitely shot as well. Turns out the guy we bought it from had had the front end rebuilt, but his mechanic neglected to put ANY cotter pins in any of the front end linkage. Also, there was NO grease in any of the ball joints, tie rod ends or any other front end parts. From what I could tell, there never had been.
Then, just on a hunch, I pulled one of the front wheels off and, sure enough, NO cotter pin and loose outer wheel bearings. It's all done by the book now. You really can't just trust what someone else has done....you have to inspect it all yourself.
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09-06-2004, 06:44 AM
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This is a funny but dangerous one.I had a 58 Chevy P/U.The brake pedal mounted through the fire wall w/ a nut on the back of it to operate the brakes. Needless to say that nut came off and when the pedal was released it jumped out of the floor board on to the floor at 50 had to gear down and turn off ignition to stop as no emergencey brake
also had to run one light.jhny |
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