Thread: Steering arms and rod ends. Tips and tricks?

I would do both sides then you know they are all good.

All going well I'll be doing mine on my days off work so I can throw some details up once Im done if I remember

Originally Posted by shanegtr

All going well I'll be doing mine on my days off work so I can throw some details up once Im done if I remember

That'd be awesome Shane. Ive found a couple of vids but they are mainly about the control arms and don't really detail the tie rods. Though from what they showed they look pretty easy. Havent checked the manual yet, as its a bunch of separate pdfs and i find it annoying to use.

There is a how-to on Disco3.co.uk also from memory. The maintenance / wiki section is a wealth of data.

Easy job. Just need some basic mechanical knowledge and experience. Use an engineer's hammer to shock the rod ends out of the tapers or a joint splitter if you can acquire one. you don't need to be skilled fitter to do this. Even motor parts replacers can do this.

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Just finally got around to doing my steering arms on my days off. Reasonably easy job. I loosened the locknut from the outer tie rod end first. The the outer tie rod nut to the knuckle is very easy to knock off its taper with a decent size hammer. The inner rod end can be undone easily with stilsons. Once off the car I then removed the tie rod end and counted the rotations to put the new one back in roughly the same position (you should do a wheel aligment after anyway so near enough is fine for this stage). I was done in under 2hrs even with me spending some time showing my 10yo son how to do the RHS

Originally Posted by shanegtr

Just finally got around to doing my steering arms on my days off. Reasonably easy job. I loosened the locknut from the outer tie rod end first. The the outer tie rod nut to the knuckle is very easy to knock off its taper with a decent size hammer. The inner rod end can be undone easily with stilsons. Once off the car I then removed the tie rod end and counted the rotations to put the new one back in roughly the same position (you should do a wheel aligment after anyway so near enough is fine for this stage). I was done in under 2hrs even with me spending some time showing my 10yo son how to do the RHS

Thanks Shane

I just had to replace the fuel pump so the tie rod ends are on the backburner. They're still legal and within spec so not urgent.