Good choice! The only way I'd trust a welded steering component would be to make a sleeve to fit over both pieces with a bunch of big holes drilled into it, and "plug weld" every hole. Butt-welding a tie rod or drag link is just too much like playing Russian roulette to suit me!
Jerry

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Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
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