inner and outer tierods - United Bimmer Community

**94bmw325i** · 06-08-2006, 10:06 AM

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

**Dudesky** · 06-08-2006, 10:19 AM

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

**94bmw325i** · 06-08-2006, 10:33 AM

thanks dudesky

**94bmw325i** · 06-08-2006, 10:43 AM

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..

**Dudesky** · 06-08-2006, 07:49 PM

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

**catalyst** · 06-08-2006, 09:05 PM

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

**bitcore** · 06-09-2006, 04:29 PM

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

Storamin · 06-09-2006, 10:13 PM

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

**Dudesky** · 06-10-2006, 05:27 AM

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

**94bmw325i** · 06-10-2006, 05:18 PM

both sides are frozen, so 4 total..