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Re: inner tie rod compatibility?
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Originally Posted by lolife99
Check the thread direction on the two tie rods.
One needs to be left hand and one needs to be right hand.
I believe what you have will be the same "thread direction".
www.performanceonline.com sells a tie rod adapter that will connect the '82 outer to you old stuff,... but you have to use '67-'70 "outer" tie rods (as inners) with your '82 outer tie rods.
Your 82 outer should be 11/16" diameter and your '70 stuff will be 5/8".
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This is the same thing I did on my '69. The adapter sleeves and using the '70 and earlier outers as inners is the only way to fix it. It's a piece of cake once you buy the sleeves. I got mine from CPP.
When they went to disc brakes starting in '71 they made the tie rods bigger and reversed the thread direction.
Tom
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Last edited by basketcase; 08-30-2010 at 11:51 PM.
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