Im renewing my tie rods, just about to remove the adjusting arm in the centre of them...is one end left hand thread and one right or are they both right hand thread?? anything i should worry about or look out for??

Cheers dudes

 

IIRC they are both RH. Nothing special I can recall did mine a few months ago.

 

just got it loose...old ones were lh and rh thread...but now i cant adjust it correctly, the manual is telling me its to be just under 13" but i cant thread it in thru that last half inch...the threads are sort of locking in the adjusting bar????

 

Did you clean the inside of the adjusting sleeve. Clean it out best you can I used a small stainless brush, looks just like a toothbrush, sprayed the inside with Brake cleaner, scrubbed and blew it out with compressed air. Before installing my tie rods into the sleeve I put neever seize on the threads, it help to lubricate and best of all helps keep them from rusting up after playing in the mud and dirt all the time.

 

Did you measure it before you took it apart?
If not you could figure out what it was by looking at the old threads.

And as you discovered one is RH and the other is LH thread.

 

When I replaced my TRE's the part numbers were the same for both sides. Why would they need to be different?

 

They're different so when you turn the sleeve to adjust them they either both go in or out.

 

Both outers are the same, both inners are the same. If an inner and outer had the same RH thread they would not adjust. Only the adjusting sleeve would move back and forth on the tie rods and their distance between each other wouldn't change.

Can you tell if any of the tie rods are longer than the ones you took out? Are they butting up against each other or is it the threads on the adjusting sleeve holding you up? You want to try to have the same amount of thread showing outside of the sleeve on both inner and outer tie rods. (L side equal to each other----Rt side equal to each other.
Use some lube if its the threads holding you up or maybe pry open the sleeves a little. I like to just replace the sleeves if both inner and outer tie rods are getting changed.

 

^^^^thing to look out for i bought mine off ebay and the outer tie rod was longer than stock so it hits the inner tie rod inside the sleeve