Tie rod ends?

[morcav]

I was looking at a few places today for tre's, the only problem is that every place I look at for 91' tre's shows both tre's unscrewing from the tie rod , my driver side tre does not unscrew, does this make any sense? do I have to replace the whole rod or does that one come out? does this mean that some one could've replaced it with a tie rod from an earlier year? Thanks guys!

 

[pvfjr]

IIRC, 10 bolts had tie rods where each end unscrews, and D44's had the ones like you do. Maybe someone swapped it. Try looking for parts for a '77 and see what you come up with.

 

[4X4HIGH]

I've seen them both ways. For what it's worth, my original stock D60 tie rod was a long end on one side, then an adjuster sleeve with a short end screwing into the adjuster.

 

[Mudstud]

Yea it sounds like somebody swapped it out. No biggie. If you want the break down and year splits LMC catalog has a nice illustrated pic of the dif types etc.

 

[morcav]

so does it make any difference? should I replace the whole thing to make it the right one?

 

[JDNobodi]

Tough call in my opinion. One advantage to swapping out to the end style is to have an aftermarket heavy duty tie-rod.

 

[pvfjr]

Well both styles work, I guess it doesn't really matter. I'd prefer the style with two short ends though. But you can just fix what you got and leave it if you want to.