What Gives? Wrong Tie Rod End.

[Justin Graham]

'89 XJ, four wheel drive. I need to replace the tie rod end, the one that connects to the pitman arm. I went to Autozone and Advanced, they both gave me the wrong part...the thread size was smaller. So I thought surely Napa will have the right part available, but they also gave me the same incorrect one. So does anybody know the correct Napa p/n for the tie rod end that connects to the pitman arm?

Thanks,
Justin

 

[ECKSJAY]

There are a couple of different sizes of drag link ends, besides the fact that they may be looking up a TIE ROD end instead of the DRAG LINK end.

 

[tealcherokee]

yeah, the DLE changed over the years.. my 96 the diameter was bigger than the 87 i pulled parts from

 

[ECKSJAY]

yeah, the DLE changed over the years.. my 96 the diameter was bigger than the 87 i pulled parts from

Exactly. Same with other little things like the swaybar and even the lengths of the endlinks!

 

[johnnyc]

On my 96, the TREs on the tie rod were 11/16". But the one that goes to the pitman arm is 22 mm. Don't know why they mixed metric and SAE.

 

[mrbill3]

The NAPA part # I used on my 89 is #269-2628. Good Luck!

 

[Roll-over]

if you go to autozone it's the right-inside TRE... It sounded backwards to me, but I got the right part.

 

[mrbill3]

So Justin did you get the correct part yet?