Call me a noob, but spent 4 hours on Tie Rod today

[Bigsyke]

Here is my take on it-

Ditch the spacers. Unless your seriously drifting your car only, the more threads of the inner tie rod contacting the shaft the better. You need to torque the innards to 90lbs, I would personally rather have as much threading possible in the shaft. Save yourself the trouble, get new locking plates, lock them down and forget about it. They didnt do much for me.

[dongoesby]

Originally Posted by Bigsyke

Here is my take on it-

Ditch the spacers. Unless your seriously drifting your car only, the more threads of the inner tie rod contacting the shaft the better. You need to torque the innards to 90lbs, I would personally rather have as much threading possible in the shaft. Save yourself the trouble, get new locking plates, lock them down and forget about it. They didnt do much for me.

When adding the spacers, it adds the total length, so that means I have to shorten the tie rods to accommodate the differences. Therefore, I should have more thread engagement with the spacers, correct?

Again, for the locking plates, let me reword it. I didn't bend the locking plates (the 4 tabs) to "lock" the new inner tie rod. I left the 4 tabs open. Does this influences the overall length of the tie rods? PS: each of the locking plates might be bended and twisted at different level when removing.

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Originally Posted by Bigsyke

Ditch the spacers. Unless your seriously drifting your car only, the more threads of the inner tie rod contacting the shaft the better. You need to torque the innards to 90lbs, I would personally rather have as much threading possible in the shaft. Save yourself the trouble, get new locking plates, lock them down and forget about it. They didnt do much for me.

The Tein tie rods come with longer threads, so with the spacer installed it still has the same amount of thread engagement as stock.