tie rod

[CRaSHnBuRN]

Since I'm close to wrapping up my rebuild, I think its time to put hydro assist on the toy. My tie rod right now is 1.125 x .188 DOM. Is this thick enough, or am I gonna bend it right away? I've thought about sleeving it, but I'm kinda worried if the OD gets to big, it might interfer with the draglink. If I do sleeve it, would it look to ghetto to use square tubing? I'll probally just use sch 40, but the square tubing give me a little more ability to play with the thickness

[BigRedFord04]

mine's .25" wall and i've smashed it into rocks in llano w/ all the weight of my 6000+lb truck behind it...barely scratched it. ratios say you'll be fine, but i always like to overbuild.

[Chadnutz]

Go easy on that ****. There is no expressed or implied warranty. :flipoff2:

[BigRedFord04]

***....there is on the heims....and i think we proved to ourselves that they're whats going to break 1st.

[Shaggy]

ya austin when you gonna replace my heims... ass

[BigRedFord04]

hmmmm.....lemme get back to you on that

[redcagepatrol]

I bent my .25" wall DOM all the time, ended up sleeving it with some schedule 80 pipe (about .25 wall also) and I have only bent it once since

[Chadnutz]

Must be that Toyota power. :flipoff2:

[redcagepatrol]

Must be that Toyota power. :flipoff2:
Nah, probably just the fact that it has seen alot more trails (trails with big protruding rocks) than most of ya'lls trucks have seen.

[eight]

Mine's 3/4" XXS sleeved with 1 1/4" sch40. Other than the first rock of the first trail it went on, it's held up fine. Kinda hard on steering parts when you think you're just hitting the diff and ram it harder to ramp over.

[CRaSHnBuRN]

Mine's 3/4" XXS sleeved with 1 1/4" sch40. Other than the first rock of the first trail it went on, it's held up fine. Kinda hard on steering parts when you think you're just hitting the diff and ram it harder to ramp over.

yeah, thats the nice thing about hysteer, it gets the tie rod up out of the way more