My cheap inner and outer tie rods crapped out. Since I decided I didn't want to go through all the headache of going under the car and getting an alignment done again in a year, I opted to buy higher quality tie rod ends.
I bought the Moog ES3380T inner tie rod end at amazon. The picture on the website looks different, but what you receive is a tie rod with the hole for the grease zerk on the side rather than the bottom of the tie rod end which is great.
But herein begins my problem. I got the grease zerk fitting and attempted to screw it in, but I noticed it wasn't going in right. After a few tries I looked closer at the hole for the fitting and I noticed it's not even threaded.:dunno: I started to wonder to myself if this was normal so I called a couple different parts stores. O'Reilly said they had some, so I asked the clerk to take a look at the all the ones they had and he also said the hole isn't threaded in any of them. I then called Autozone, but they said their's weren't greasable and they weren't moogs. After that, I remembered a post I read on here with a guy in the first gen forums complaining about the inners with the zerk hole in the wrong location and how he said NAPA had the correct ones. Sooo I called NAPA and they did have them with the holes in the right locations, but once again they told me the holes were NOT threaded. Fed up, I decided to call the dealer, but the dealer said they discontinued the parts.
So what gives?? I really don't want to install the same crap parts again. Is it a major issue if the zerk hole is on the bottom rather than the side? Also, what would you guys recommend getting?
I bought the Moog ES3380T inner tie rod end at amazon. The picture on the website looks different, but what you receive is a tie rod with the hole for the grease zerk on the side rather than the bottom of the tie rod end which is great.
But herein begins my problem. I got the grease zerk fitting and attempted to screw it in, but I noticed it wasn't going in right. After a few tries I looked closer at the hole for the fitting and I noticed it's not even threaded.:dunno: I started to wonder to myself if this was normal so I called a couple different parts stores. O'Reilly said they had some, so I asked the clerk to take a look at the all the ones they had and he also said the hole isn't threaded in any of them. I then called Autozone, but they said their's weren't greasable and they weren't moogs. After that, I remembered a post I read on here with a guy in the first gen forums complaining about the inners with the zerk hole in the wrong location and how he said NAPA had the correct ones. Sooo I called NAPA and they did have them with the holes in the right locations, but once again they told me the holes were NOT threaded. Fed up, I decided to call the dealer, but the dealer said they discontinued the parts.
So what gives?? I really don't want to install the same crap parts again. Is it a major issue if the zerk hole is on the bottom rather than the side? Also, what would you guys recommend getting?
