32-34 Tie Rod End Adjustment

[Flathead Fever]

Modern tie rods balls have some stiffness to them when you move them from, side to side. I bet it would be difficult to spin the ball by hand. Used ones just flop around. Bored&Strokeds' procedure sounds good to me. Snug without locking them up. There are sockets that fit the slots in those tie rods ends and drag links. It speeds up the process, but they are not necessary. The phone company garage I was at opened in 1950, there was still some of those old tools laying around 60-years later They are not there anymore, will call them retirement gifts, besides there was nothing there they fit anymore. You can put some never seize on the tapered tie rod ends and the tie rod threads. It will make them come apart easier next time. Definitely use some on the spring perches. If you don't want your cotter pins rusting on your restorations, you can buy them in stainless, that way they will look new forever.

Here is a photo of tie rod adjusting tools for setting toe-in and Proto still makes drag link adjusting sockets in either a 3/4" wide tip or 15/16".