Thread: Series 2a tie rod ends - which ones?

Originally Posted by Loubrey

........ Fully threaded will fit on shouldered tubes, but as per John's post, you need to fix it with fitting the correct ends.
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Cheers,

Lou

Let's make this clear - fully threade will fit in a shouldered tube, but this is unsafe. The clamping is only on the crests of the threads, and is likely to lose its grip after a bit of use. The unclamped tie rod end will then wear the thread until it lets go, probably on a sudden stress, such as hitting a bump at speed. Not the circumstances in which you want steering failure.

John

right....these tie rod ends are really starting to annoy me.

The first lot I ordered were all threaded so I exchanged a set of LH and RH ones for shouldered to suit the track rod ends.

Now I went to fit the freshly painted track rod with new tie rod ends and the end that goes onto the arm off the the hub is too small!

I ordered UNC...are the whitworth tie rod ends a larger diameter on the tapered shaft?

Thanks heaps

The tapers on all of them should be the same. I have never struck a different one.

John

Hi John

Just between you and me...let's put it down to a rookie mistake!

(They fit perfectly)

I won't even ask if you tried to put them in from the wrong side!

John

haha....not that time John. I was only using hand pressure so that's why there was movement.

Now interestingly, I removed the link between the steering box and the relay last night (after a lot of effort and ended up having to use some heat on the steering box end)

This shaft uses shouldered tie rod ends, but I see that the tie rod end at the relay had been replaced at some stage with a fully threaded tie rod end!

Certainly not something I would like to see, but at least that link has less load on it than the others - the steering relay absorbs some of the shock loads from wheels hitting the obstacles.

John

Agree and I have used the correct "shouldered" tie rod ends as replacements.