Re: Tie rod end scraping against A-arm bracket

[Simon Body <body@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Gil, Richard, Paul and Brian

Thank you all very much for your suggestion. I had initially put it on back 
to front, but fortunately before I went too far I realized what I had done 
and put the grooved side on the back end. So it's not that, fortunately. 
I've looked over it a few times and I keep coming back to the thought that 
the new tie rod ends are too thick, but it' seems illogical.

I'm tempted to buy a new set of tie rod ends from another vendor to see if 
they are any better. But I'll also try Gil's suggestion of spacing the 
A-arm bracket if that doesn't work.
Thanks for all the help.

Simon





At 08:11 AM 4/21/2003, you wrote:


> Hmmm,
>
> Now I'll have to crawl under my car to take a look.  But now that I
> think about it, the problem I described could be fixed by turning the
> a-arms over on either side, assuming you also flipped the ball joint.
>
> So I think it's a front/rear issue, and it sounds like you've already
> taken care of that.
>
> I'll have to poke around under one of the Alfas to look at the steering
> geometry, but that's not going to happen until tonight at the earliest.
> Too bad, I've got a Spider on the lift, but I think I've already
> dismantled most of the front suspension.
>
> bs
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