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Subject:Re: Manual Steering: How to Torque Inner Tie Rod End? (searched)
From:neil n
Date:Sun, 17 Apr 2011 21:18:31 -0700

Na. No "crying". Just pained me to imagine any harm coming to those parts.

Pic showing glimpse of pinion and rack *http://tinyurl.com/3ny5qny *
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*It's a pretty stout looking set up so hard to imagine 51 ft lb's doing any
harm but.... lesson learned*
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*Neil.
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On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 8:39 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:

> At 08:21 PM 4/17/2011, neil n wrote:
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>> I now see what you meant.
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> :)
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> You got away with it or not...spilt milk now.  My barely-educated guess is
> that a problem would be detectable right away from the input side, surely a
> serious problem.  But I've no direct experience.
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> d
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