OT: Count To A Million Game!

Alin

Diehard Car Enthusiast!
6580 Hurry up and post an actual picture of it!
 
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6575 - Ahhh damnit. Our econobox Ford Focus (2006) has a bent tie rod. I've never replaced one before. How difficult is it? Local shop wants $180+tax to replace it. (Front, left, outside tie rod)

P.S. I know I will need an alignment afterwards.

Super easy to do. Make sure you get a tool to remove the outer tire rod from the steering arm on your front knuckle. Most auto parts stores rent them out for free.


Looks something like this.


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Also forgot to ask inner or putter tie rod? If it's the inner you may need additional too to remove it from steering rack which looks like this

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Finally, when removing the inner and outer tie rod from each other loosen the lock nut and count how many full rotations you unscrew it so you get it close to what it originally was.


On a scale of 1-10 of difficulty I would call this a 2.


Best of luck hope the info helps.



Edit....seen its the outside tie rod third tool not needed.

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6580 Hurry up and post an actual picture of it!
6582 Haven't taken it outside the box yet lol so this is all I got so far
ps. raven you forgot the number on your post lols
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Alin

Diehard Car Enthusiast!
6583 Dude, that's sick! :tup:
 
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IGOTASTi

System Operator
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6590 ???

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Batmobile_Engage

Squirrel Meat Aficionado.
Staff member
6591 - Ugggh...this weekend is going to suck. Trust me, I'll try to stay positive, but I'm stuck going camping with the gf's family and they don't do anything while camping. I'm actually struggling to explain how little they do. There have been trips where we literally sat around the fire for 72 hours while the kids play XBox inside the camper.

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6592... Easy fix bring the backpack your Atv of choice and return at scheduled departure time.


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Batmobile_Engage

Squirrel Meat Aficionado.
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6593 - No ATV and we're camping in a @#$%ing RV park. I will have a kayak and my fishing gear, but the nearby lake is notoriously terrible for fishing. TERRIBLE. Over the last 3 years, I've spent nearly a week (combined) fishing that lake and I have yet to catch one single fish. That's pretty sad. I'm hardly the world's best fisherman and I'm a better hunter than I am a fisherman, but I am pretty rednecky and grew up next to a series of streams and rivers. If there are fish to be caught, I will catch something.
 

Batmobile_Engage

Squirrel Meat Aficionado.
Staff member
6594 - According to the locals, the problem primarily stems from the Indians that fish the lake. Many of them have special permits that allow them to net large numbers of fish indiscriminately and without regard to size, so fish populations are incredible depressed.
 
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So after my samsung galaxy s6 became as useful as a marshmallow after the 6.0.1 marshmallow update and both at&t and Samsung saying I'm SOL I purchased a 1plus3 phone and have Internet access again lol

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War_Panda04

STill Plays With Toys!
6599 anyone watch top gear last night? My club "Form and Function" was on it! They used some of us and our cars for background cars in the race against the challenger SRT8 and tesla model X

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And thats all i have to say about that...
 
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