While my rig was at the shop today, I was told that I should replace my front driver side tie rod in a few thousand miles. I was quoted at $130 and was wondering if this was a fair price. Also, is there a company out there that makes a heavier duty product or is this something that I can go your run of the mill product?

 

Bah, I'm an idiot. Sorry to all who wasted their time looking at this.

 

Inner or outer? The outer end is easy to do yourself. Just loosen the jam-nut. Loosen the nut holding onto the tie rod. Take a hammer and hit the tie rod stud (since you are already replacing it, then it won't matter if you damage the threads). Count how many turns unscrewing the end and install the new one with the same number of turns. At our shop we usually do an alignment with it, but few of them actually are far off during the toe adjustments.