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datman55
 Post subject: Longer Tie rods?
PostPosted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 10:35 am 
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Hey guys........ What have people done about getting longer tie rods? Surely this is a problem when people use longer lower control arms?

Is there a suitable donor vehicle to get the longer tie rods from?

Cheers guys.

P.S. How much of the tie rod should be in the tie rod end.

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I'm not sure about the Sunny, but on a 180B, the two common strategies are:

- Use inner tie-rod ends on the outers... They're longer than the outers, and there doesn't appear to be any real problem with doing this.
- Stew Wilkins makes/has hexagonal heavy duty ones, that are longer as well.

Hope this helps?

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Thanks dude...I am off to see Stew on Friday for a dyno tune, so I will talk to him more about it then.

Cheers.

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Pics of SW tie rod ends then, or at least a description :)

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Sorry, I took a bump on the head on Saturday, and am obviously still having problems!

Stew does hexagonal tie-rods, not tie-rod ends. I think they are about 25mm longer than standard.

Of course, I've only ever seen then installed on a rally car, not seperate, so its hard to compare them to standard ones...

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From memory they are 185-190mm long.
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Is that the length of the standard ones or the Wilkins specials?

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my brother and i had two tie rods machined up for twenty dollars each. They worked excellent!

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