help with trying to get outer tie rod off

[Warren]

well I just bought a new outer tie rod and I cannot get the old 1 off I cannot get the nut o the inner rod to break free so I can back it off I cannot unscrew the old outer tie ro isoldit with pb blaster still no luck which way should the nut turn clockwise or counterclockwised.

 

[kevinspann]

You need to turn the nut clockwise (like you're "tightening" it) and the outer tie rod needs to be turned counterclockwise. Leave the tie rod bolted to the knuckle in order to break the nut loose.

 

[Warren]

for 40 minutes I've been trying to break this thing loose with an adjustable crescent wrench by turning a clockwise and it still won't break loose I even tried vice grips

 

[notbange]

If you're sitting looking at the car from the outside the jamnut will be turning clockwise. If you were underneath the car looking at the nut you will be turning it counterclockwise. Try heating it with a torch. Usually its easy to get the nut to break free from the outer tie rod, it can be quite difficult to get the jamnut to turn freely on the threads of the inner tierod.

 

[Eric VerValin]

Leverage! Double up your wrenches if you know what I mean. I had to get my angle grinder out and take off some of the nut and tie rod itself. Wouldn't move for me either.

 

[intimdatr]

Ended up cutting one mine off as well.

 

[Eric VerValin]

Did the end pop out too? I had a stud left in the knuckle after I tried using my wrenches, tie rod came apart in two pieces.

 

[intimdatr]

Nope. Just cut off the end. And ended up having to cut off the inner tie rod as well. Was a bad day.

 

[SuperHO]

I had to get ahold of a nut splitter to get mine off....it happens.

 

[frosho]

Try heat? Somebody probably put red loctite on the jam nut. It comes with new outer tie rods sometimes, and I don't understand why. They think we will never need an alignment?

 

[Warren]

I had to get ahold of a nut splitter to get mine off....it happens.

How do you use a nut splitter on the nut that's already on the tie rod? The nut splitters I've seen are a closed loop how would I get it pas th outertie rod end?

 

[Warren]

Well I finally got that nut loose by fitting a pipe over a pair of vice grips and it finlly broke loose. Thanks for all of the advice