The Project Pad

Sweet!! With requiring 40% more fuel for teh same power, you may fill up 5 times in 2011

hahahaha.

i didnt get to see this car, i was down there on late Sunday/Monday/early Tuesday too. looking for it just like each other time i spotted it driving around.

a4kquattro wrote:heh. you'll be smoking the corn crack pipe in no time

Marc, you'll have to come back and put a diff-blowin' tune on the Blue Pill like you did to James car at Glenwood! Wait til I have my torsen staged and ready to swap though.

Aaron, how long with this next project keep you in Vegas? Have a time frame to start?

I never got the car aligned after the suspension upgrades / before the Battle Born event. The car went down the road straight but was really twitchy, my basic checks of the rear end was that it was toe'd out. A bunch. This was cause form the prior owner / shop installing the rear tie rods upside down and them making contact with the underside of the chassis and bending at the threads. This not only kept the shop from adjusting them, but probably added some weird bump steer as well. Anyway, as stated in my want-ad, the first one I attempted to straighten broke. It was just too far beyond, and it was bent AT the threads.

I thought that between Martin and I, we had the last three NEW replacements in the World. He sold his pair, so I now have the last known new early tie rod on the planet? Go ME.

What I'd like to do is spearhead a project to develop a solution with available racing parts and get not only my car back on the road by Spring Mountain, but maybe get a couple others back on the road.

The angles will need to be pretty close to what you see below, as well as the little tweak at the subframe-end which helps to clear the subframe itself.





Maybe its as simple as what 034 has done for the later cars (4k's) but utilizing a different adjustment method due to the bends in the tie rod?

Like to hear some ideas and thoughts...

Thanks to Louis-Alain Richard from Audifans we know that the Geo Tracker ball joint is the same as the Urq and has the same 16x1.5mm thread. The Tracker turnbuckle is a bit long but can be turned down to fit the Urq. This is just FYI because I would guess that anyone that can make a new inner tie rod can probably make a custom turnbuckle also. Here is a picture of the Tracker parts on my Urq.

Sean, I started putting feelers out on Monday to find a local who can accomodate our wishes. Shouldn't be to tough.

The rod end goes into(fits) the hub as well?

Wow. that is really good information Sean. Do you have a specific model or part number for the tracker joint?

Hank, if I remember correctly, those discussions were about a 1990 model year tracker.

Greg - thanks for jogging my memory about those.

My issue is still a unique one since my ball joint is actually good, the rods themselves are bent (broke) to sh*t.

Sean, if they need a part in-hand I can provide one.

1990 Tracker/Samurai is correct.

http://www.audifans.com/pipermail/urq/2 ... 08818.html

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