I'm going to be replacing my inner and outer tierod as well as my ball joints. So far most of the repairs i've done i bought my parts off from rockauto. I'm wondering whats a good durable brand at reasonable price. I only feel like doing this job once. I do have oreilly part store near by that i could go to as well. The brand i have to choose from are masterpro, moog, beck/arnley, acdelco, raybestos, deeza.
Tierods
- Thread starter kdannyk
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I went rockauto to see the pricess and for all moogs parts inner and outter tierods, lower and upper ball joints for both side comes to a little over $400 dollar with shipping. Does this sound high?
DanD
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kdannyk said:
I haven't shopped around, but one Moog outer tie rod was just over $100 a few years back when I bought two. Seems reasonable for all the parts you mentioned.
HARDTRAILZ
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- Nov 18, 2011
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More than I would pay for those parts, but I do not think Moog is better than most cheap ebay parts.
6716
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- Jul 24, 2012
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FWIW:
Just last night I ordered AC Delco outer tie rods from Rockauto.
I'm about to switch out my steering gear at 210K miles, and one of the tie rods is still original.
The other is a Moog I had a shop put on 60K+ miles ago. I don't think it's bad, but it sure didn't want to come off the inner
tie rod when I was wrenching on it to see if I wanted to do this repair myself.
So instead of fighting that siezed nut, I bought new and I'll just drop the old gear and tie rods off and put the whole new gear
and tie rods back on. Plus I like a balanced repair when I can get one, and they had to come off anyway.
I got Mevotech upper ball joints almost two years / 40K miles ago, and I guess they are ok. I haven't had reason to suspect them
failing so far, anyway.
Just last night I ordered AC Delco outer tie rods from Rockauto.
I'm about to switch out my steering gear at 210K miles, and one of the tie rods is still original.
The other is a Moog I had a shop put on 60K+ miles ago. I don't think it's bad, but it sure didn't want to come off the inner
tie rod when I was wrenching on it to see if I wanted to do this repair myself.
So instead of fighting that siezed nut, I bought new and I'll just drop the old gear and tie rods off and put the whole new gear
and tie rods back on. Plus I like a balanced repair when I can get one, and they had to come off anyway.
I got Mevotech upper ball joints almost two years / 40K miles ago, and I guess they are ok. I haven't had reason to suspect them
failing so far, anyway.
hockeyman
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- Aug 26, 2012
- 726
I had to modify the C clip in my inner tie rod tool to make it fit on the Moog inner tie rods, just like it's shown here (scroll down a few photo's).
Offroadtb.com Tie Rod Replacement (Inner and Outer)
Also shown there, be sure to use Loctite when reinstalling the new ones.
Offroadtb.com Tie Rod Replacement (Inner and Outer)
Also shown there, be sure to use Loctite when reinstalling the new ones.
