Ted, have you got all the parts together yet? I don't remember to much about putting mine back together other than I did have to use some of the old original parts. I think it was the spacers or "spring seat" as the shop manual calls them. They are the first piece in on the tie-rods and the spring goes over it. I new ones were to long and wouldn't let it all come together. Compare old verse new and see if they all are equal. Joe