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Has anyone else ran into a problem with a IRO solid tie rod being way too short ? If so , how what did you do next? trash it in the junk steel pile in your shop after they told you over the phone that its just fine...
Ordered an solid stock IRO tie road. thing only has around 1/2" of thread engagement. For my second rig, a mild built MJ, not the crazy built XJ....
88 MJ on 5" of lift. stock drag link and pitman arm. soon going down to 4" of lift.
Ive done XJ alignments for like 7 years and I've never seen a ZJ V8 tie rod, Currie, or custom ruffstuff, or even stock have so little thread engagement, and so much thread showing.
Anyone else run into this? the guy there at IRO gave me the run around over the phone said its good to 8" of lift- but at this rate there would be no thread engagement at like 7" of lift it would seem so I have no idea how they came up with 8" lift max. I would say with this tie rod stock height is the max.
the MJ is getting dropped down to around 4" of lift
toe in is dialed in and steering wheel is centered.
Dude at IRO said if I try to return it ill have to pay return shipping and discounted return value since its used now.
( if I knew it was going to suck this bad I would have just grabbed a ZJ v8 tie rod)
measures 35", but needs to be 36"-36.75"
In the pic above its less than 1/2" of thread engagement.
I messed with the drag link to get a hair more thread into the tie rod.
toe is about 1/16" in- its not like the thing is toed out 2" or something.
Ordered an solid stock IRO tie road. thing only has around 1/2" of thread engagement. For my second rig, a mild built MJ, not the crazy built XJ....
88 MJ on 5" of lift. stock drag link and pitman arm. soon going down to 4" of lift.
Ive done XJ alignments for like 7 years and I've never seen a ZJ V8 tie rod, Currie, or custom ruffstuff, or even stock have so little thread engagement, and so much thread showing.
Anyone else run into this? the guy there at IRO gave me the run around over the phone said its good to 8" of lift- but at this rate there would be no thread engagement at like 7" of lift it would seem so I have no idea how they came up with 8" lift max. I would say with this tie rod stock height is the max.
the MJ is getting dropped down to around 4" of lift
toe in is dialed in and steering wheel is centered.
Dude at IRO said if I try to return it ill have to pay return shipping and discounted return value since its used now.
( if I knew it was going to suck this bad I would have just grabbed a ZJ v8 tie rod)
measures 35", but needs to be 36"-36.75"
In the pic above its less than 1/2" of thread engagement.
I messed with the drag link to get a hair more thread into the tie rod.
toe is about 1/16" in- its not like the thing is toed out 2" or something.
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