Hello guys, my car needs an inner tie rod. My mechanic wants something crazy to do it and I keep hearing I need a special took to remove it.



I checked for a DIY for this, but nothing



What is involved? Should I just let my mechanic do it?

 

how much is he charging you for it?

 

Umm the only special tool you should need is a pickle fork.



This should be all thats involved:



Use pickle fork to pop off outer tie rod end.



Pull boot from inner tie rod end.



Remove the nut holding the inner tie rod on.



Mark the location/distance of your outer tie rod before putting it on the new inner.



Torque it all down and check your alignment.

 

That's for the outer tie rod.

For the inner he needs either a big Crescent wrench or a inner tie rod removal/installer tool. It's a long tube with different wrench adaptor to use on differnt cars and then you turn it with a 1/2" wrench. You can buy this at Harbor freight or buy a name brand one from Lisle for like $70.

You cant see the hex part that you need to turn untill you remove the boots. It is very possible to do it with a crescent wrench by doing one side at a time by turning the wheel all the way to one side which puts the tie rod as far out as possible to you can get to the 4 sided part of the inner rod that needs to be loosend.