I did not do the inners at the time, I should have, but I wasn’t thinking clearly. 40-50mm for the inner tie rod is correct, gonna be hard to get exact unless you knew the exact position before removing. Hence why you almost must have an alignment done afterwards.
@@LogosFarm I counted the rotations of the outer tie rod when taking the old ones off, and put the new ones on with the same number of rotations, which I guess helped with the alignment since the car is driving well without any alignment. But with the inner tie rods we weren’t sure if we got them tight enough or over tightened because the access is from the top and the crows foot wrench kept hitting the metal plate underneath the inner tie rods/rack when trying to tighten so you would have to loosen it to be able to tighten it again lol. So we were never able to torque them to spec just got them good and tight and bent the washers over the rack. And also tightened down the jam nuts again as they loosened as we were tightening the inner tie rods. It was the most confusing part of this repair for us as total newbs
About to do this job on my 02 Honda Civic.
Good luck! Hopefully you don’t have any rusty bolts. Just did the valve cover, coil packs, and plugs. I’ll need to upload that too
We’re still in winter tires mode for a while up here. You need to friend me on on Facebook
Good thing you got a beast Toyota! dunamislodge there as well?
Did you do the inner tie rods? We just did them but are having confusion torquing them. I read the spec is 40 ft pounds
I did not do the inners at the time, I should have, but I wasn’t thinking clearly. 40-50mm for the inner tie rod is correct, gonna be hard to get exact unless you knew the exact position before removing. Hence why you almost must have an alignment done afterwards.
@@LogosFarm I counted the rotations of the outer tie rod when taking the old ones off, and put the new ones on with the same number of rotations, which I guess helped with the alignment since the car is driving well without any alignment. But with the inner tie rods we weren’t sure if we got them tight enough or over tightened because the access is from the top and the crows foot wrench kept hitting the metal plate underneath the inner tie rods/rack when trying to tighten so you would have to loosen it to be able to tighten it again lol. So we were never able to torque them to spec just got them good and tight and bent the washers over the rack. And also tightened down the jam nuts again as they loosened as we were tightening the inner tie rods. It was the most confusing part of this repair for us as total newbs