inner and outer tierods
 

I was wondering how hard it would be to install inner and outer tierods?

My mechanic was going to do a full alignment, camber adjustment, etc and he said they were both completely frozen on both sides.

He tried penetrating oil, acetylene (sp?) torch and a few other things. So I was thinking that I could save myself some $ from having him do them.

Anyone have a DIY they could link me?

Thanks as always :redspotda

PM catalyst for some info, he did his a few months back.

thanks dudesky

oh yeah I think it is just the tie rod ends. I am wondering if it is the inner, or the outer ones that screw in..

It's the outer tie rods that screw in, and they're locked with a locknut.

It's very easy, basically you will need a small pickle fork (same thing used to seperate balljoints) to seperate the outer ends of the tierods, some penetrating agent (pb blaster ftw), and two big ass open ended wrenches.

I will try to find the picture of what was involved later, the bimmerforums search feature is down atm :angry

Doing the assembly isn't that hard, its when the outter portion is frozen and thats what you are replacing instead of the whole assembly is when it gets really hard.
I need to do mie badly, but autohausaz has had supplier problems and sent me mismatching lef/rights

Didn't catalyst have the same problem with mismatched tie rods from Autohausaz a few months ago?

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http://www.unitedbimmer.com/forums/g...ting-here.html

both sides are frozen, so 4 total..