Weld in bungs for Tie Rod 7/8-18?

[WJACKSON11X]

I bought some a while back, but don't remember where I bought themI thought it was JKW Offroad, but I don't see them on their website. Anybody know where I can get some?

 

[jwilson76]

Check out spidertrax.com. I'm not sure of price comparison, but I'll probably buy mine from them.

 

[owenst7]

Ballistic sells them too I believe.

I'm surprised Kert isn't selling them come to think of it. hint hint

 

[WJACKSON11X]

Need right and left hand thread too. Welded mine in, but got too hot I guess. The tie rod ends no longer thread in. Cheaper just to buy new bungs than to buy taps.

 

[MNorby]

I bought mine from WFO. Ruff Stuff should also have them. Both have awesome service too.

 

[owenst7]

Need right and left hand thread too. Welded mine in, but got too hot I guess. The tie rod ends no longer thread in. Cheaper just to buy new bungs than to buy taps.

When you weld them in, cover an old end with anti-seize or copper-seize and thread it in. It will act a heat sink and it won't allow the threads to deform too much.

You can do it with new ends just fine too, you shouldn't be getting them super hot. Just obviously nicer for slag and stuff, etc.

 

[WJACKSON11X]

Just ordered them from WFO, I looked earlier on there, but not close enough I guess. Thanks guys for all the help.

 

[MNorby]

Trevor is good to work with. Any reason to have left and right hand? Why not just right hand then you don't need to carry a spare of each. How often do you adjust toe? once? So what if it takes 5 min longer to adjust.

 

[cybrfire]

I've always preferred to tap the tube directly rather than weld in bungs. Guess that's why I've never put them on the site.

 

[4X4HIGH]

I've always preferred to tap the tube directly rather than weld in bungs. Guess that's why I've never put them on the site.

Same here, 2 less potential failure points with the tie rod being direct threaded.

 

[dhcomp]

Trevor is good to work with. Any reason to have left and right hand? Why not just right hand then you don't need to carry a spare of each. How often do you adjust toe? once? So what if it takes 5 min longer to adjust.

If they are both threaded the same way, you have to remove a TRE from the knuckle to legnthen/shorten the TRE, while adjusting toe in/out.

If they are threaded reverse, you just loosen the locking nuts, and rotate the whole tie rod.

 

[MNorby]

really?
Like I said it only takes 5 min more to pop the tre out, spin a few times and put back it. Then you only need to carry one spare tre instead of two.

 

[ssyork]

And if you weld a ram assist on you won't be turning the tie rod anyways.

 

[4X4HIGH]

And if you weld a ram assist on you won't be turning the tie rod anyways.

Unfortunately that statement isn't true. I am running hydro assist and also have left and right TRE in my tie rod and it's just a matter of quickly removing one bolt from the ram and loosen 2 jam nuts and I can rotate my tie rod to adjust toe in without having to remove one TRE to make the adjustment.

 

[MNorby]

or at least be unbolting one end of the cylinder.

 

[MNorby]

Unfortunately that statement isn't true. I am running hydro assist and also have left and right TRE in my tie rod and it's just a matter of quickly removing one bolt from the ram and loosen 2 jam nuts and I can rotate my tie rod to adjust toe in without having to remove one TRE to make the adjustment.

but you have to carry 2 spare TREs. How often you adjusting your toe that it benifits to not have to knock one of the TREs loose?
I adjusted mine when I first put it together and never have touched again.

 

[4X4HIGH]

but you have to carry 2 spare TREs. How often you adjusting your toe that it benifits to not have to knock one of the TREs loose?
I adjusted mine when I first put it together and never have touched again.

I don't carry ANY spares, when's the last time you broke a TRE? I personally have NEVER broke anything on my rig yet. Sure there's always a first for everything but i'm not worried about breaking a TRE.

 

[ssyork]

Blazer Bash baby! TRE's about 3 years old. One ton chevys. Sheared the stud right off.
PS: guess who had a spare?

 

[dhcomp]

Blazer Bash baby! TRE's about 3 years old. One ton chevys. Sheared the stud right off.
PS: guess who had a spare?

Maybe you should just make your front tires cooperate with each other, the problem is clearly that they wanted to go different directions....

 

[ssyork]

Maybe you should just make your front tires cooperate with each other, the problem is clearly that they wanted to go different directions....

It's like they are married or something!