On my first wheeling trip in Big Bear California, I bent my factory tie rod into the shape of a shepherds crook! After scratching our heads for a while and beating on it with hammers and rocks which did nothing, we made a discovery!
The hole in the frame just behind the front bumper is the exact size of a factory tie rod! We were able to slide the tie rod into the frame and use it to get the leverage we needed to bend the tie rod to as straight as we could get it! We still had a good mile of riverbed boulders to get past to get off the trail. We knew the now weak tie rod would just bend again, then we had another great idea!
We sleeved it with my high lift Jack handle. We made it off the trail and I was able to drive it home 90 miles at freeway speeds with just a measuring tape alignment on the trail!
Anyone have any other trail fixes that help out in a pinch?
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The hole in the frame just behind the front bumper is the exact size of a factory tie rod! We were able to slide the tie rod into the frame and use it to get the leverage we needed to bend the tie rod to as straight as we could get it! We still had a good mile of riverbed boulders to get past to get off the trail. We knew the now weak tie rod would just bend again, then we had another great idea!
We sleeved it with my high lift Jack handle. We made it off the trail and I was able to drive it home 90 miles at freeway speeds with just a measuring tape alignment on the trail!
Anyone have any other trail fixes that help out in a pinch?
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