[Chris152]

Glorious! (Photo) New track rod ends, tie rods and ball joints fitted. I've still not bought new nuts to replace the questionable new ones, but then, it's not left the drive since we had the stripped nut problem.

Quick question - when a nut with built-in washer is removed, should we be placing a new washer inside the new nut? Some of the parts we ordered came without a washer, but on the track rod end we put one in where the old nut had one built in.

ps When we did the track rod end, we just slackened off the nut on the track rod without moving it any more than necessary, unscrewed the old end, and screwed on the new one on hand tight and brought the old nut back to lock onto it - is that a reasonable thing to do? Marking seemed like it'd be no more accurate, and counting turns unnecessary? Whatever, it'll need to head to the garage for alignment soon.

We even put copper grease on the track rod thread, pretty much pros now.