wellis77
10-07-2011, 09:01 AM
I recently purchased a Woodward Steering rack for my build and it's awesome! In addition, I had them build aluminum tie rod adjusting sleeves (for the front and rear) for me as well. As I begin to plan the rest of the system I have a question on choice of rod ends for the tie rods.
I'm looking at the QA1 Endura series rod ends in either aluminum and chrome moly. The main differences between the two are weight, aluminum is 50% lighter, and the Radial Static Load, aluminum is 15,000 lbs and Chromo is 23,542 lbs. I don't know what sort of forces these will see, but considering the difference in radial static load, should I stay away from the aluminum or is there no reason for concern? Since my adjusting sleeves are aluminum, should I only consider aluminum rod ends?
These will be used of course on the front end but also on the rear IRS.
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2011/09/file79-1.jpg
I'm looking at the QA1 Endura series rod ends in either aluminum and chrome moly. The main differences between the two are weight, aluminum is 50% lighter, and the Radial Static Load, aluminum is 15,000 lbs and Chromo is 23,542 lbs. I don't know what sort of forces these will see, but considering the difference in radial static load, should I stay away from the aluminum or is there no reason for concern? Since my adjusting sleeves are aluminum, should I only consider aluminum rod ends?
These will be used of course on the front end but also on the rear IRS.
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2011/09/file79-1.jpg