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Hoping for quick reply… Read in one post that the nut on top of rack outer ball joint is “opposite” thread. As in loosen CLOCKWISE

Is that hooey or actually true?

Thanks all!!

 

Hooey. They undo anticlockwise.

 

Aye, I can not come up with any logica;l reason for a CCW thread! But, then, tis a Jaguar. And the makers think the steering on out cars are on the wrong side...

Carl !!!!

 

I have never seen a ball joint fastener with a left hand thread.
Wheel nuts, YES but not a suspension part.

 

Doesn't one of the tie rod ends turn opposite?


Larry Louton

 

On some old Chevy tie rods with the hollow threaded split tube to set TOE but I have not seen that on Jaguars.

 

Well, it wasn't total hooey years ago ! The Mark2 cars had totally fixed outer track rods, with no separate ball joint "ends". Adjustment was on the centre tracking rod that lay between the box and the idler which had a LH thread. Tracking was adjusted by unclamping the centre rod and turning it. Later on this was done away with and normal adjustment at each end with separate track rod ends was used because the power steering boxes had to be fixed in a certain position using a plug.which engaged in a recess in the steering shaft in the box. I believe the racks were the same too.

 

just did mine. counterclockwise absolutely.

 

Thanks.. I may have misunderstood the reference to "lock nut" but the general gist of this post seemed to be ball joints



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The picture you show is a common ordinary Tie Rod End, not a Ball Joint.
I have never encountered one of these with Left-handed threads: CCW to tighten.
Which doesn't mean they don't exist, only that I have never seen one.
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