Moab Spring 2K6 Pics

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Originally posted by PhilD:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Fubar:
exactly. The breakage will get moved up the drive train to something not so easy to fix or replace.

Not true. The stock rods are not designed to break, they do beacuse they are weak. Stronger tie rods do not effect the drivetrain or put it any more risk. They simply strengthen a weak point.

Now, if you abuse your vehicle, then expect things to break, but the whole notion that the stock tie rods are some sort of pressure valve is false.

Just because you have stronger tie rods, it does not mean that something else will break instead. It simply means that you won't break a weak point as easily. However, if you force the steering when you are bound, etc, sure the tie rod may not break and something further along may, (that would be the center link, Pitman/idler arms or steering box, not the driveshafts), but that is the drivers choice, you don't force IFS period.

You break driveshafts or CV's from too much driveline stress, often accompanied by severe angles, you do not break driveshafts or CV's by simply having HD tie rods.

I've blown two CV's, many Pitman/idler arms, and a steering box, all because of how I drove, not because I had HD tie rods. I've never broke a tie rod, stock or HD. Steering stress and driveline stress are related with IFS, but the concept of HD tie rods breaking the driveline is just plain wrong.

If you allow an IFS front end to bounce or force the steering, you will break something. The HD tie rods remove one link, it doesn't mean you can abuse the vehicle until something else breaks. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Not saying that they are not good to have, because they have really saved alot I'm sure.

But.... if you are driving it harshly or whatever and that tie rod will not brake- something would have to give in. If not the tie rod something else along the line will give- it is just physics.