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Track Rod protection.
Topple:
I've straightened two now with a hand winch, got them straight enough to get me home.
davidlandy:
once they have bent once they will bend agan very easily. I bent one back by hand in a vice!
muddyweb:
Indeed... once they are bent... throw them away !
Metal Fatigue can make things very weak :shock:
Kenny:
I bent two standard track rods on the 90 so replaced with a sumo bar and bent that. Now sticking to standard, cheaper to replace and easier to bend back to get you home.
Damian
Range Rover Blues:
I'm sticking with the standard one for now too, I have a spare. Oh and I have the QT diff gaurds which will catch the track rod if it goes too far out of line. I had thought of getting a cranked rod made (you know what thought did). It's also an argument against fitting castor correction arms.
If you're sliding the tube over the existing bar and hoping it will spin you need to be very sure the existing one is straight. Even then I don't think it will work too well.
You can't do this to a Disco because of the damper, also the track rod has the adjuster at the driver's side so there are 3 clamps not 2 like on a Defender.
Stainless? has anyone heard of galvanic corrosion? put Stainless next to mild steel and it uses the mild steel as a sacrificial anode, so it corrodes faster!
At the end of the day if you overdo it something is going to break, if not the track rod then what? the rod ends? the knuckle? something even harder to fix in the middle of nowhere that's what.
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