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Pirate4x4.Com > Brand Specific Tech > Jeep - Hardcore Tech > best way to straighten a bent tie rod? PDA : best way to straighten a bent tie rod? Sharp 09-01-2002, 09:54 PM it's a V8 ZJ tie rod on my TJ so it's solid, and it's the Y link style, thats why i didn't want to hook my winch to it, once it's off whats the best and easiest way to get it nice and straight again? thanks!:) hy_desert_4wheeler 09-02-2002, 03:34 AM Originally posted by Sharp it's a V8 ZJ tie rod on my TJ so it's solid, and it's the Y link style, thats why i didn't want to hook my winch to it, once it's off whats the best and easiest way to get it nice and straight again? thanks!:) BUY A NEW ONE.. you will never get it perfectly straight.. orbitcat 09-02-2002, 08:23 AM Leave it bent, it will improve your approach angle ! nasvik 09-02-2002, 08:51 AM HF pipe bender. Who cares if it's PERFECTLY straight? Paul ItsaCJ6 09-02-2002, 09:20 AM put in the vise and bend it out.. Jason R 09-02-2002, 09:33 AM Originally posted by orbitcat Leave it bent, it will improve your approach angle ! haha Did that for a while...Worked nicely till it got too bent and gave me bad death wobble cuz it was bowin in and out. :flipoff2: Maine Jeepah 09-02-2002, 09:41 AM Get a new one....or a real one. If you bent it once you will bend it again...don't be that guy. MJ mike 09-02-2002, 09:42 AM Ahhhh yeah, the only thing the HF pipe bender does well :D and it does too. Jes 09-02-2002, 01:44 PM Originally posted by Maine Jeepah Get a new one....or a real one. If you bent it once you will bend it again...don't be that guy. MJ Ya, what he said. This was a tie rod I had bent and straghtened on Swamp Route a couple of weeks earlier. I was bound up on an optional v rock on Fordyce when I turned the wheel too hard... http://home.attbi.com/~6mach9/jes_tie_rod.jpg ...I removed the soiled diaper that's hanging down soon after. :D http://home.earthlink.net/~jdrios/AA_0768_016.jpg Replaced the bent OEM POS with a new OEM POS that I had as a trail spare. Tip. Know how to do a tape measure alignment! Jes BIG PERM 09-02-2002, 08:38 PM Beef up your tie-rod. My buddy Russ at Baertrax (local guy in Dallas - baertrax.com) set me up with a stronger version about a year ago, after bending tie-rod time and time again. Once that was done, the drag-link became the weak link, so that had to be strengthend as well. Now my fuse is the tie-rod ends, but those are cheap and much easier to carry. Bending it back in shape will just make it weaker.....basically, you'll be bending it back into shape after every wheeling trip. You'll either need to replace yours or upgrade. my 2.5 cents...