Tie Rod Upgrade (read before voting)

DonnyG

DonnyG

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Well, take it from someone who has purchased parts more than twice for the same thing. Don't waist money if there is something better for a few bucks more.

Currie may have a great name in the sport, but there is a reason for that,... because the stuff works, and holds up

No saying there is anything wrong with the way you drive, but for the sheer abuse factor, lets review the differences.

Currie: 4130 chrome moly bar stock
Rusty: 1.50 DOM

And what about joints, the Currie one jumps up to a full 7/8 thread end... what about Rusty? Just says it comes with ends? Are they stronger, or stock, What?

For the $99 difference, to go ahead and buy something that you know will never give you problems and is a trusted upgrade, I would go Currie.... look through every magazine, you will see how well Currie holds up...


Name brand or not, you get what you pay for...
 
I'd look for a kit that elimanates the crappy "Y" setup. I know someone makes one, just don't know the name. Look into that as well.
 
sean_cj7 said:
I'd look for a kit that elimanates the crappy "Y" setup. I know someone makes one, just don't know the name. Look into that as well.
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ORO... but you are looking at a lot more than a couple hundred (there are others out there as well) ORO is considered one of the better for cross over steering.
 
yeah a little more than a few hundred....try 700! :shock: :horseshit: :tongue:
 
I am also planning on upgrading the drag link in the future. It is for this reason that I am leaning towards the Currie setup. However, I wouldn't mind getting the Rusty's setup for now. (Half the price), run it for the rest of the season, then get the whole Currie setup if I don't like the Rusty's and unload the Rusty's for a few bucks to a noob. Still better than stock. Just my thoughts and rants.
 
CE-9701TR is the one I am looking at. I called Currie today and they said that it will work with the stock drag link. They said I could upgrade to the Drag link later.
 
Not to throw a wrench into the works but I'm really happy with my Big Daddy Tie rod, I got it from Rubicon 4x4 (use discount code 10RPER for a 10% discount) for less that a hundred with TRE's. If you can reuse yours, you should be able to pick it up for under 70.

The Poison Spyder setup is also really beefy. I was thinking of adding the Draglink gusset and adjuster to my setup which would still come out ahead of the Currie setup price wise.

FYI, Before you decide to go with Rusty's price out everything WITH SHIPPING, when I was looking into control arms they wanted something ridiculous like 150 to ship a set of 8 arms to CT.
 
Agreed on the Drag link,
but like I said, given the alternatives, going with a stronger Tie-rod and then beefing up the stock draglink with something like the PSC kit seems like a pretty good lower cost alternative to the Currie setup.

Figure a beefed up Tie rod is on the order of 100
the gusset (you could probable make the same thing alot cheaper) is like 19 and the beefier drag link adjuster sleeve is 49. Before getting someone to weld the gusset you are looking at about 170.

Given that the Currie set is twice that, thats some good coin to put towards another mod.
 
have you thought of the poison spyder kit which is also a flip kit...
 
I run the Currie setup on my TJ. I really like it. I have put it through a lot since i put it on 2 months ago. Seems to hold up pretty good. It did get a pretty nice bend in it down at paragon. It bent where the tie rod end meets the draglink. But for the magnitude of the hit it took i thought it was going to be much worse than it is. That seems to be the weakest part on any tierod/draglink, near the ends. I daily drive my Jeep everyday and have yet to have steering issues. I would definately purchase this setup again in the future. But the next step is making my own hiem crossover steering setup.
John
 
Would this work?

http://northeastjeep.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4214
 
If you are just upgrading the tie-rod I would suggest looking at the Toys by Troy Aluim-flex tie rod. I really like mine. I run it with Currie's drag link and the set up works really well. He sells it for $166.oo on his site but I picked it up for just over a $100.00 from 4x4groupbuy.
With the beefed up drag-link the tie-rod absorbs most of the abuse and prevents/asorbs shock hits that might damage the steering box.


http://www.toysbytroy.com/Product_Files/Product_Alumi-Flex.htm

My 2 cents.

T.
 
My sugestion

Carry a spare, stay stock. If you upgrade the tubing, those rod end ball joints are more likely to be broken. I'd rather deal with swaping out the bent whole tube than trying to remove broken rod ends on the trail.

Your truck moving at even a slow speed will bend / break almost anything you put in the way.

I had a rusty's cross over eliminator, not the tube replacement. It's my trail spare, gets you home to where you can put orignal type parts back on. I won't even give it away. Damn things horrible to drive on the road. The geometry sucks! I can't believe he still sells those things. Put one of these on and where your steering wheel centers will shift depending on if the last turn was right or left.

http://rustysoffroad.com/Merchant2/...=rustys&Product_Code=SC-250&Category_Code=ste
 
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