Bolt snapper
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I can sort of anticipate the responses I may get to this question, but I'll ask it anyway.
I have an 04 EB and just put a nice set of used tires on it. It has 185k miles. The truck's in good shape, but not stellar. I may keep it for a couple more years - I may decide to upgrade.
The tire shop that installed the used tires said the passenger side inner tie rod was in really bad shape and needed replaced. They gave me a quote to replace it and do an alignment. I replaced both inner and outer tie rods this afternoon myself.
My question is: Both replacement parts looked to be exactly the same length as the originals. I counted turns of the outer tie rod when removing. I measured from the face of the rotor at two different points back to the frame before removing the tie rods. When I put it back together (turning the outer tie rod back on the same number of turns), the two rotor-to-frame measurements were exactly the same. Given that this isn't a $50k rig (more like a $1500 rig), but also given that I'd rather not replace tires again soon, you think I'm ok driving it without an alignment seeing as how the number of turns and two measurements are exactly the same as before I tore into it?
As always, I value the input of you folks on here. You've been incredibly helpful to me.
I have an 04 EB and just put a nice set of used tires on it. It has 185k miles. The truck's in good shape, but not stellar. I may keep it for a couple more years - I may decide to upgrade.
The tire shop that installed the used tires said the passenger side inner tie rod was in really bad shape and needed replaced. They gave me a quote to replace it and do an alignment. I replaced both inner and outer tie rods this afternoon myself.
My question is: Both replacement parts looked to be exactly the same length as the originals. I counted turns of the outer tie rod when removing. I measured from the face of the rotor at two different points back to the frame before removing the tie rods. When I put it back together (turning the outer tie rod back on the same number of turns), the two rotor-to-frame measurements were exactly the same. Given that this isn't a $50k rig (more like a $1500 rig), but also given that I'd rather not replace tires again soon, you think I'm ok driving it without an alignment seeing as how the number of turns and two measurements are exactly the same as before I tore into it?
As always, I value the input of you folks on here. You've been incredibly helpful to me.
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