Rods and ticking sound

[FoSHO99]

Does anybody have an idea how difficult it can be to replace 2 inner tie rods? I just got the outer 2 replaced for $175 and now a different shop is telling me its gonna take them 5 hours of labor to do the INNER tie rods for a whopping 300 labor plus 110 for parts. Then an alignment after that and I have a ticking sound, (not cams) coming from maybe the back left side of my engine, sounds like a belt/pulley. Any input would be nice. I also am planning on doing a 100k tune up, rotate coils, plugs, probably belts since that sound.

 

[hawkeye18]

Inners are way harder to do than outers. For inners you basically have to take the steering rack out. The ticking might be a timing belt.

 

[Ishodu]

Has this car had its cams welded? If not I suggest not running it again if you hear a ticking from the cam area. Also sounds like there prices are quite high, I never did inners on a gen3 before but outers are very simple and shouldn't have taken more than 1 hour for both.

 

[wymjym]

I just had my 97 sho aligned. The inner had to be replaced. They charged me one hour labor + 39 bucs for the part. I think the prices quoted to you are a bit high.
wj

 

[nothingtoseehere]

Inners are way harder to do than outers. For inners you basically have to take the steering rack out. The ticking might be a timing belt.

No you don't. I did both of mine without so much as lowering the subframe.

Those prices do seem high, and if you want a whole tune up done, a garage is not going to be cheap.

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[FoSHO99]

Yeah, they charged me $488 for inner tie rods and alignment. I'm probably not going back to them except for a free rotation with the tires I bought from them.

Aside from that....wow....I probably should have taken a video of my car before and after because those tie rods really must have been shot. The mechanic said he could move the wheel around by hand. And all those times I applied brakes and the steering wheel would shake back and forth was not from warped rotors... I was going to sell my car after I fixed everything but just driving it after that fix, I really want to keep it.

 

[FoSHO99]

And what can NESHO do for someone in Iowa?

 

[nothingtoseehere]

Same thing NESHO does for people in MI, Canada, Minnesota, etc.