At the end of April we went camping in the khaki TJ up in MI at Drummond Island.
Unfortunately the locker pump sucked in water earlier in the day and the lockers went out right as I was coming up to this ledge climb:
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Getting back to the build thread, since I have the toe set, I finalized the tie rod to firm it up, the tie rod is made from 1.25" DOM and inner-sleeved with heat treated 1" 4140 solid round bar:
Innersleeving has 2 benefits: 1) the tubing won't dent and fail. And 2) the tubing gets strengthened.
Each end got 3 rosette welds to the threaded rod end insert, and welded all the way around.
The heat from the welding warped the threads slightly so I chased them with a tap. Some of the taps were difficult to find especially at reasonable prices for only chasing threads. Here's the part numbers and sources of the taps: The right hand 7/8"14 tap I used is Drill America DWT54892, the left hand 7/8"-14 tap is Drill America DWT60891.
That's all there is to the tierod.