Heims or TRE's

[agjohn02]

let's hear both sides. Pro's and con's...

[chevsu]

TRE's they stay tight. steering or susp.?

[uglyota]

trying to set up for an active day on the boards?

[agjohn02]

steering. wouldn't use TRE's on suspension personally.

nah, im gonna be busy today, but i figured this would be an active thread since some people are so passionate about heims. i personally like TRE's for the same reason cody stated plus they are greasable.

now if you dont have anything productive to say, get off my thread hippie.

[Sharpe]

I went with TRE's for my steering cause I figured if the manufacturers though TRE's are better, then they probably are.

[uglyota]

now if you dont have anything productive to say, get off my thread hippie.

bite me
and you can get greasable heims, but they suck...good ones have teflon. You already know you're gonna use TREs. You trying to join the chadnutz/robbie club?

[agjohn02]

no, im trying to be open minded and get all the input i can before i make my final decision. you should be happy.

[uglyota]

okay, my impression is that if you are going to have crazy amounts of flex and your steering will need to accomodate large amounts of misalignment, you should go for heims at the expense of having to keep an eye on your steering and check the tighness of the joints and the bolts. Billavista did a writeup on heims and rod ends I think, read that and let us know what you find.
My experience is that cheap heims suck and wear out quickly. My first set got super sloppy in like 10,000 miles, and replacing (2) with expensive teflon ones made a world of difference.

[Sharpe]

Drag link ends have alot more misalignment than TRE's, why not use them if you need more travel?

[AggieTJ2007]

hmm, good point there robert. I went w/ TRE instead of something w/ heims because on the street the TRE will last a lot longer and they stay tight

[agjohn02]

Drag link ends have alot more misalignment than TRE's, why not use them if you need more travel?

in my head at least, TRE is a generic term for OEM style joints. which technically, would be TRE on the the tie rod and DLE on the drag link. so yeah...

[agjohn02]

My experience is that cheap heims suck and wear out quickly. My first set got super sloppy in like 10,000 miles, and replacing (2) with expensive teflon ones made a world of difference.

you can buy new cheap ones already worn out, right kopecki?

[CheapJeep]

I run heims on my drag link with no problems so far, but I do agree that tre's are alot easier on the maintenance side of things.

[tigweld]

Drag link ends have alot more misalignment than TRE's, why not use them if you need more travel?

still it's not as much as a heim with misalighnment spacers. I think either way can work good, you just can't buy 10$ hiems.