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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 166 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 166 | My husband was looking at my truck yesterday and noticed that the cotter pin that holds my tie rod end bolt in was gone and the bolt was missing. Jeez that could have been BAD. Still trying to figure out how the darn thing came out. 
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS "Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem." -- Ronald Reagan 1966 Fleetside SWB Webshots | | | | | Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 2,384 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 2,384 | Soneone didn't tighten it. You are lucky. Yrs ago I was involved in a 5 car wreck on the freeway caused by a fella in a Honda that came across the median & hit 4 of us going the opposite way. The tie rod came off the right side, he musta turned left to compensate & the car finally went left hard, right into oncoming traffic. Dude was pretty messed up but lived, that Honda Accord hit a '67 Electra 225 head on. The Electra driver broke a leg. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 2,985 Crusty Old Sarge | | Crusty Old Sarge Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 2,985 | You were lucky that he found it before you drove it again. I had a shop do some work on the Wife's van and had the rear U joint come loose afterwards. Messed up the rear quarter and the drive shaft. I do all of our maintenance but was deployed when it needed repair. I wasn't happy with the shop owner, and he wasn't happy with me.. :mad: :mad:
~ Craig 1958 Viking 4400"The Book of Thor"Read the story in the DITY1960 Chevrolet C10"A Family Heirloom"Follow the story in the DITY Gallery'59 Apache 31, 327 V8 (0.030 over), Muncie M20 4 Speed, GM 10 Bolt Rear... long term project (30 years and counting) Come Bleed or Blister, something has got to give!!! | Living life in the SLOW lane | | | | | Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 50 Member | | Member Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 50 | The 46 COE I am doing now didn't have a nut on the pitman arm shaft. There was many years of dirt and grease on the threads so it had been that way a long time. To make the avoided disaster worst ,when I put the puller on the pitman arm it it came off pretty easy. Makes you want to look a used truck over before you hit the road. :hammering:
restoring a 1946 coe wrecker.
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