tie rod ends

I got the part #’s for the rebuilding the ends, I was quite surprised to see it broken down like that I just thought the tie rods ends would be sold complete. When I tear them apart I should be able to drill them somewhere on the backside and place the zerks. It will be interesting to see if the parts I need will be sold like they are shown in the book.  Three rubber seals on each side does it.

well only the dust caps are available the other parts not.so I drilled and taped the steel caps drilled the nylon upper cup to match . It only takes a half a pump of the grease gun to fill, I will order the dust caps and reassemble. It is no wonder they were starting to loosen ,dry steel ball moving on a nylon cup with no lube and no way of lubing. stupid .

no ,unless I use a bit of real thin leather over the ball , I will see how long it will say tighter with the added grease. Maybe I should just order new tie rod ends, but I hate to cause I do not like the design. will have to ponder.

yeah you are probably right buy new and modify, I have been thinking about getting the metric thread pitch and see if someone else make the same joints but with a different design as far as joint lube service. but that I think will be a dead end.

there will be a brief 2 month wait on parts for this, it is a good thing that this was not really service affecting.