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p.s also I have another friend that told me he just put some kind of yoke on his truck that basically takes most of the pressure and stress off the tie rods and ball joints does anyone know what he might have been talking about i didnt really understand him

Also another thing that kinda makes me kinda wonder about going to them is that the first time I went there to get it alligned and they told me about my ball joints and tie rod ENDS they said nothing about my inner tie rod just that I needed new ENDS which I know for sure that I didn't there was absolutley no slack in the ends and this last time I went there they said nothing about the ends
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ok this is what ended up happening
I have a buddy that owns a auto shop in town he gave me a great deal and I had him do the ball joints the top one wasn't bad at all but the bottom was pretty bad. So I got those replaced and he doesn't have a allignment rack so I then took it up the road to big O for a alignment and indeed my alignment was out. they showed me and told me that my inner tie rod was bad it has alot of slack in it but I had them align it the best they could and as long as I fix that tie rod within 30 days I can have them align it again for free
Oh man! Why didn't you replace the tie rod?? Those things are cheap......


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ok this is what ended up happening
I have a buddy that owns a auto shop in town he gave me a great deal and I had him do the ball joints the top one wasn't bad at all but the bottom was pretty bad. So I got those replaced and he doesn't have a allignment rack so I then took it up the road to big O for a alignment and indeed my alignment was out. they showed me and told me that my inner tie rod was bad it has alot of slack in it but I had them align it the best they could and as long as I fix that tie rod within 30 days I can have them align it again for free
Oh My
First shop said they were bad and then.
Someone told us the ball joints and tie rod ends were good.
And then your buddie finds them bad.

But after all of that did that take care of your problem?
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well it helped a lot but until i get that inner tie rod fixed then its gonna be a little off but i plan on doing that her in the next week or two. haha and yeah it was rediculous
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well it helped a lot but until i get that inner tie rod fixed then its gonna be a little off but i plan on doing that her in the next week or two. haha and yeah it was rediculous
Glad it is fixed.
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