I was wrong.

I now see what you meant.

Nope. Didn't put rack in soft jaws in vice. That was potentially
foolish. Bentley shows the right way to remove tie rods from rack.

Can't believe I did that. Especially to such a nice low mileage rack!

Neil.

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 1:49 PM, neil n <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:

> When torquing nut, I was careful to position rack "loose" in vice .....

> In Bentley I see the image of the rod in soft jaws, but have not found
> image of tool used to torque inner tie rod end.

> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:45 AM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:

>> ....�But I hope (expecting the answer no) you clamped the rod in
>> the vise with soft jaws the way it shows in Bentley, not the outer case of
>> the unit. �Failing to do that would put enormous leverage on the pinion and
>> associated parts.

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