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 narumi
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| posted on June 15th, 2013 at 02:10 AM |
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Center Tie Rod (Super beetle)
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.
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| posted on June 15th, 2013 at 10:20 AM |
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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.
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| posted on June 15th, 2013 at 10:37 AM |
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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.
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narumi
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| posted on June 15th, 2013 at 10:44 AM |
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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
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| posted on June 16th, 2013 at 09:47 PM |
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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.
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narumi
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| posted on June 17th, 2013 at 12:56 AM |
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@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.
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