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Help! Track Rod on 90 bending

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tjolliffe:
Hi all!

I've got a 1986 90, not that it makes any differnce with a track rod but i keep seeming to manage to bend it whenever i take it off-road. Couple of questions firstly, is this common? i cant figure out how the hell i'm managing to do it, the rod sits so close behind the front axle you'd think that the axle would just take a pounding before the rod got it  :? . Secondly i havent been able to find anything out there in the way of a guard short of buying HD rods, and they are f*****g expensive!
Thanks for any help!
Cheers, Tom

landraver:
Hi Tom, The rod is bending because of the compression forces placed upon it when your front wheels want to go in opposite directions. take it off, go down to a steel stockists & get a piece of box tubing to sleeve the whole rod, weld the ends, job done (probably cost less than a tenner)

Jeff

SteveG:
two sumo bars for drag link and track rod including two greaseable TRE's for 85 pounds is expensive?

Steve

smo:
Strange, i use mine regually for some relatively serious off road stuff and as yet have never had a problem with the trackrod.

drmike:
And where does one get these sumo bars at that cost?

I like the sound of the box section although I have that fitting under the diff that one passes through which seems to prevent too much bending (a dumb arrangement in humble opinion).

Mike

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