Broken Tie Rod

[DirtDigler]

Curious, has anyone with a 4x4 and larger tires ever broken a tie rod? If so, what was the damage? I guess I've been lucky in that I've been wheeling "the beast" since '07 and have had 0 issues. Living on borrowed time? Gonna pull the trigger on the Kryptonites soon just because I want to prevent the inevitable.

 

[wjburken]

Curious, has anyone with a 4x4 and larger tires ever broken a tie rod? If so, what was the damage? I guess I've been lucky in that I've been wheeling "the beast" since '07 and have had 0 issues. Living on borrowed time? Gonna pull the trigger on the Kryptonites soon just because I want to prevent the inevitable.

Well....I've never seen things go well when a tie rod breaks. I've never broken one, but I have seen anywhere from just the tie rod needing replaced to complete spontaneous separation of knuckle from the control arms or worse.

 

[DirtDigler]

Yea trying to prevent this! Especially out in the sticks. He also broke font cv shaft. Told my wife it's to prevent future costs!

 

[Doubeleive]

Curious, has anyone with a 4x4 and larger tires ever broken a tie rod? If so, what was the damage? I guess I've been lucky in that I've been wheeling "the beast" since '07 and have had 0 issues. Living on borrowed time? Gonna pull the trigger on the Kryptonites soon just because I want to prevent the inevitable.

I kind of tossed the same question around at 4wheel parts and they said you are better off just throwing a spare tire rod in your gear bag because even though the tire rods are a weak spot on IFS you want a weak spot, strengthening that up means you could break something else instead that is not so easily replaced.
sort of made sense to me, eyeballing a new tie rod on would at least get you back on the road and a alignment could be done later. I would imagine a gear box would be harder to break than a rack n pinion though.

 

[DirtDigler]

I was thinking that too. They've held up nice through slot of abuse so far and with having almost bulletproof tie rods, something else is bound to give. Hmmmm, decisions , decisions

 

[OR VietVet]

Yep, steering goes away and that weak link is pretty easy to replace. Carry a spare. Weak spot is like the u-joints on driveshafts.

 

[89Suburban]

I was thinking that too. They've held up nice through slot of abuse so far and with having almost bulletproof tie rods, something else is bound to give. Hmmmm, decisions , decisions

Yup K.I.S.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle


Go with the spare.

 

[DirtDigler]

I was actually about to round up spare parts when I started looking at Kryptonite . I'm all for keeping it simple, but in the back of my mind I'm afraid of collateral damage if and when a tie rod decides to call it a day. That could end up costing a lot more, like front diff stuff, ya know? You guys are probably right though.

 

[89Suburban]

I was actually about to round up spare parts when I started looking at Kryptonite . I'm all for keeping it simple, but in the back of my mind I'm afraid of collateral damage if and when a tie rod decides to call it a day. That could end up costing a lot more, like front diff stuff, ya know? You guys are probably right though.

We behind ya either way bro.

 

[DirtDigler]

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