Mrblaine, I have the highest respect for you and your products. I am currently planning on replacing my steering linkage and may very well purchase your product-as I have very much faith in what you design and build. I am sorry if I paraphrased something I had read last week poorly. I am not sure if this was the post or not, but it is essentially what I was trying to paraphrase.
As for my becoming annoying (reply in a different thread from of one of my posts yesterday), I am sorry - apparently it is one of my personality traits that I have been reminded of amply by many, many people over the last week,
You kind of highlighted (and took away what you said) jsut one part of @mrblaine's reply, but ignored what he said next (in red below) .. not sure why. People really need to pay more attention while reading (and that applies to me equally)
To date, I only know of a single incident where something else failed and given what I know of what happened, I suspect the same failure would have occurred with any tie rod.