Last week, I had all the practice I needed assembling torsion bars, struts, etc. and I was on the home stretch of rebuilding the steering linkage with oversize tie rods and sleeves.
That is when I discovered that being the dumb ass that I often am, I had only ordered one set of tie rod ends rather than two sets. I ordered the other pair from the Rock and, they arrived via priority mail to the post office on Saturday morning. I happily took them home and started assembly the last side. Suddenly I realized that the inner rod was smaller than the sleeve and larger than the original tie rod..but too small. The box had the right number on it, but, I found a number on the rod itself and discovered it was not a Moog end, but it was also a Ferd part for a Galaxy.
Looks like some one opened the Moog box and filled it with a Mcquade ferd part.
Being somewhat pissed, I decide to pop the old linkage (steering knuckle arm, ball joint, and both tie rods off the center link....I have already said how that ended...rocket to my foot that did not quite get out of the way.
Anyway, when I quit crying/cussing, I went in and decided to call Rock and see if anyone was there on a Saturday. To my surprise, there was a guy on the phone and he apologized, asked if I wanted my money back, or another tie rod. He said he would send it out Monday. Damn, he over nighted it and I had it at 9 this morning.
Told me to toss the wrong one instead of returning it.
I should have asked for a new toe.
Got it back together now except for bleeding the brakes and installing the front sway bar.
