Bent Currie Tie Rod

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Took the LJ out today for the second time since the recent overhaul. Put an ugly bend in the tie rod dropping off a Boulder. Can this tie rod be bent back straight and reused? I am supposed to leave for the Rubicon trail Tuesday after work.

Appreciate any advice
 
Duck Doctor said:
Took the LJ out today for the second time since the recent overhaul. Put an ugly bend in the tie rod dropping off a Boulder. Can this tie rod be bent back straight and reused? I am supposed to leave for the Rubicon trail Tuesday after work.

Appreciate any advice
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Yes, you can bend it back. But If you have the budget , you should strongly consider Blaine's 4340 heat treated tie rod that @L J shared above. Bend yours back to shape and keep it as a souvenir, or sell or give it to another jeeper.
 
Yes, we bent them back with a shop press on a regular basis before moving on to Blaine's 4340 heat treated tie rod.

We actually bent one back in the field....... @tworley where's the pic?
 
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Appreciate the advice. I’ll order a replacement from Blaine. Since I need the replacement by Monday I am having a Currie tie rod overnighted.
 
I'm happily running mrblaine's tie rod too after bending my Currie 2-3 times that a big press was always able to straighten. But I always wonder about Currie's having been heat treated so it'd bend before something upstream might break. @mrblaine would mine have eventually bent in time to save something further up from it? Not that it matters to me any more but I was always just curious about that.
 
Jerry Bransford said:
I'm happily running mrblaine's tie rod too after bending my Currie 2-3 times that a big press was always able to straighten. But I always wonder about Currie's having been heat treated so it'd bend before something upstream might break. @mrblaine would mine have eventually bent in time to save something further up from it? Not that it matters to me any more but I was always just curious about that.
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No way to know. Given that I only know of one instance where the stronger tie rod was involved in upstream damage, I'd guess not. But that failure likely would have happened with any tie rod given how it failed. Big drop off a boulder on a climb that landed right on the body next to where it connects to the steering arm which broke the tie rod end.
 
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mrblaine said:
No way to know. Given that I only know of one instance where the stronger tie rod was involved in upstream damage, I'd guess not. But that failure likely would have happened with any tie rod given how it failed. Big drop off a boulder on a climb that landed right on the body next to where it connects to the steering arm which broke the tie rod end.
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I just finished replacing the drag link and both ends and noticed the bottom of my tie rod is just beat to shit with some pretty good gouges on it but still good and never any upstream damage. By the way I discovered I am definitely too effing old to be doing even minor maintenance like that now. Especially given my garage doesn't even have a fan. I got up off the garage floor feeling every bit my age and then some.
 
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Jerry Bransford said:
I just finished replacing the drag link and both ends and noticed the bottom of my tie rod is just beat to shit with some pretty good gouges on it but still good and never any upstream damage. By the way I discovered I am definitely too effing old to be doing even minor maintenance like that now. Especially given my garage doesn't even have a fan. I got up off the garage floor feeling every bit my age and then some.
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You need to find a couple teenagers who are interested in hands on stuff and offer to teach them about car stuff while paying them minimum wage to fix your Jeep. It’s nice to pass on the hobby that way. I already taught my boys, so when I’m older I’ve got built in help. 🙂
 
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Somehow I bent the draglink portion. Driving in bigger boulders then I should be

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hosejockey61 said:
Yes, we bent them back with a shop press on a regular basis before moving on to Blaine's 4340 heat treated tie rod.

We actually bent one back in the field....... @tworley where's the pic?
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An elevated platform, a winch, soft shackles and a snatch block. Good as new! Then some time later I fine tuned it in a 20-ton press.

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Jerry Bransford said:
I just finished replacing the drag link and both ends and noticed the bottom of my tie rod is just beat to shit with some pretty good gouges on it but still good and never any upstream damage. By the way I discovered I am definitely too effing old to be doing even minor maintenance like that now. Especially given my garage doesn't even have a fan. I got up off the garage floor feeling every bit my age and then some.
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The floor gets further and further away as you get older. LOL.
 
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