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narumi I'll do it tomorrow

138 posts · joined Aug 2011 ·

#959825
I bought a center tie rod from overseas that goes from the box to the idler.
installed it on the car and it was making squeaky noise.
I thought it was the idler arm bush that was making noise.
but today I had a chance to look at it and took the idler arm off and turn out the tie rod was squeaking.
I proceed to use spray grease into the boot which seemed to help.
the noise is completely gone now after a short drive, steering is also lighter.

my question is arent all tie rod pre-greased, or did I get the bad one.

Uber Kafer Wolfsburg Wizard

414 posts · joined Nov 2009 ·

#959855
we assume some things, and grease from the factory would be one of them. I normally give the boot a bit of 'squish' test to check though. Might be a good move to force some more grease in to yours, depending on what sort of grease you already sprayed in, and how much.

Just a thought.... if you got the part from the US, check that its not operating at some funny angle, ie at the limits of the tie rod end rotation/travel and partially binding. I expect they are symmetrical and you have just flipped it, but without seeing it ??... I am just putting it out there.

Joel Now containing 100\% E-Wang

9,368 posts · joined Feb 2006 ·

#959856
The drag link only fits one way and they are the exact same part LHD or RHD.

I suspect you may be right as the amount of people that complain their steering is heavy after replacing it suggests they are not shipped with enough grease in them.

narumi I'll do it tomorrow

138 posts · joined Aug 2011 ·

#959857
I will have to pull the rods out again and change the boot i ruined aswell, don't know if I should use more lithium grease or HTB

Lucky Phil Wolfsburg Wizard

480 posts · joined Aug 2010 ·

#960029
Good question.
The Litium grease these days seems to be cr@p and seperates very quickly. I don't like it.
HTB seems to hold together better.

narumi I'll do it tomorrow

138 posts · joined Aug 2011 ·

#960039
@Joel I doubt this one come with grease at all haha.

I sprayed the grease on when i put in new brake rotor (ebay RDA slotted rotor{because it was cheaper than non slotted})
now that I no longer have squeaky steering noise. I have brake noise lol
hopefully goes away once bedded in.