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TRQ drivetrain kits are manufactured using premium raw materials to restore original performance. Each TRQ drivetrain component is designed to be a direct, maintenance-free replacement to the stock unit. To extend the service life of your drivetrain, TRQ recommends replacing wheel hubs, bearings, and constant velocity (CV) drive axles at the same time to ensure even wear of components and improved ride comfort. All products are fit and road-tested in our Massachusetts R&D facility to ensure we deliver on our promise of Trusted Reliable Quality.
Install Tip: When replacing steering components, have a professional alignment performed afterwards. This ensures proper tracking and even tire wear.
Our steering and suspension components are pre-greased and sealed for long life and do not require the extra maintenance typically required by greaseable versions.
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Hi, I'm Mike Green. I'm one of the owners of 1A Auto. I want to help you save time and money repairing and maintaining your vehicle. I'm going to use my 20 plus years experience restoring and repairing cars and trucks like this to show you the correct way to install parts from 1AAuto.com. The right parts installed correctly, that's going to save you time and money. Thank you and enjoy the video.
In this video we'll be showing you how to replace the front axle or the half-shaft or CV joint in this '01 Ford Taurus. Same as pretty much any '96 to '07 Taurus. Tools you'll need are: jack and jack stand; 10- to 21-millimeter sockets; ratchets and extensions; 10-millimeter, 18-millimeter wrenches;am d a 30-millimeter socket. You will need a tie rod puller, which is kind of a special tool; a large hammer; and a pry bar or large screwdriver.
Start by using the screwdriver and pry off the little cap and try not to fumble it like I do. If you have the benefit of air tools, the air ratchet's the best way. This is a 30-millimeter hub nut and you want to remove it with the air tools. If you don't have air tools, you want to have your car on the ground, wheels on the ground, and then you can remove this with hand tools. You're going to need a large breaker bar because it is on here tight. Now, use a 19-millimeter socket to remove the wheel.
Next, remove the cotter pin that holds the bolts for the tie rod end. This is 18 millimeters, now you're going to use a tie rod end and ball joint puller or pusher. Try to make sure it's lined up as straight as you can. It pops. Now it's disconnected. Put penetrating oil on the upper stabilizer link bolt and the strut clamp bolt, and yes, you'll notice that the tire rod end is connected again, because I shot out of sequence. Below is a 10-millimeter bolt right here that you can remove that holds the brake line bracket. We'll speed through that.
Then you pull that brake line bracket out and then you slide the bracket that has the ABS sensor up and pull that clip off. The upper stabilizer bolt you'll need an 18-millimeter wrench. Then you can see I've got a 10- millimeter wrench on there in case I need to hold that shaft still and it turns out that this actually comes apart without even having to hold that in place. You can pull that link out. I'm just putting that bolt back on there for safe keeping. The bolt that holds the lower end of the strut, it's an 18-millimeter wrench that I'm going to use to hold it and this is a 21 millimeter. I've just taken and pulled the rest of it off by hand, and I actually didn't accidentally drop it, actually. Then a small hammer or a hammer and just drive that bolt out. You have to drive it all the way out until that bolt actually does hold onto the strut. Once you get it out, you can usually pull it out right by hand.
Then you need a good-size hammer. You just hit the top of the steering knuckle. If you look real close, you can basically see the disc sliding down off of the strut. We'll speed it up a little bit here. The big red arrow- that is the axle shaft coming through the hub. Usually, I give that a nice big rap and it loosens right up and that's the case. It was actually loose on this Taurus. Usually just a nice big hammer works. Give it one big rap and it'll loosen it up. Now, I'm ready to separate the strut from the steering knuckle. I'll just pull the wires out of the way and down and then the washer from the hub bolt. Actually, it just fell down. Then move everything down. Totally different angle here. Use a smaller pry bar or a big screwdriver and basically just pry your axle up out of the hub.
Obviously be careful of that one line right there. That is the brake line. There's generally enough slack in it to do this. Pry it up and pop it out. Then you'll grab onto it with your hands and pull it up. This route does require some strength and some force, so you can pull it up and out. Underneath, on the business end of that axle, just put a pry bar in there. It's just a snap ring that holds that in place, so just pry it right out.
Back again from above, just take the axle right out. Before you reinstall your axle you want to just- if your seal's been leaking- you may want to replace this seal, right here. Axle pretty much goes in like it came out. You want to put it right up and in. Just give it a good push, make sure it goes all the way in. Check it from down below here. Make sure there's no shininess showing there. It's all in. Then take your axle and push it right into the hub. Now you want to pull these, your brake line and your ABS sensor wire. Actually, push your suspension down and pull your strut right over so it's in.
Make sure your bracket is going down into the slot in the steering knuckle here. Then push it down. Again, make sure that that gets lined up with that slot. As long as you have that bracket lined up into the slot in the steering knuckle, you start jacking it up and it goes together. It goes right on. You want to keep lifting. Put this bolt in and once that bolt goes through, you're all set. Now here I'm going to put the nut on the other side of that. That bolt you want to tighten up to 100-foot pounds of torque. Put your stabilizer links back in. Put this clip back on. Just be careful of your fingers when you slide this down over. Now, on the back side this little tab goes right through the hole in this clip in the strut and holds everything together. Then the bolt will bolt it together.
We'll fast forward through tightening that up. There's no specific torque, just make that bolt tight. Here, we'll use a little tapping of the hammer. Doesn't usually take much to get that stabilizer link through the strut. Then put the bolt on and then use your 18-millimeter wrench, and possibly your 10 millimeter. Get that link nice and tight again. No specific torque specification, just get it good and tight. Now you want to reconnect your tie rod end, put that bolt on. We're going to torque this to 50- foot pounds then pull it just a little tighter so we can get the cotter pin in. Speed through putting the cotter pin in here. Using a hammer beat it in there. Then I just bend it over with my hand to make sure it stays.
Here, I'm going to put the washer and the hub bolt back on then I'm going to grab my impact wrench. If you don't have impact tools, put your wheel back on and lower the car down on the ground. When you do that, you can see I'm looking in behind. Basically what I'm doing is watching the axle go into the hub. Once I see the axle pretty much get all the way in hub and the wrench slow down, that's when I stop because I will want to torque it by hand with the car on the ground. Save you all the details of putting the wheel back on. But put it on there, put the lug nuts on. I tighten the lug nuts preliminary with the impact wrench and then let the car down to the ground.
Now with the car on the ground that 30-millimeter nut, we'll tighten it up to 130-foot pounds. Now I'll put the little cap back on and the center cap. Just get it positioned right and get give it a good tap with your fist or with a little hammer. Then I'm going to torque my lug nuts to anywhere from between 80- to 100-foot pounds. Use a star pattern, so cross, cross, cross, and cross. When you road test, just be careful. Go slow the first time out. You should be all set from there.
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Brought to you by 1AAuto.com, your source for quality replacement parts and the best service on the internet.
Hi, I'm Mike Green. I'm one of the owners of 1A Auto. I want to help you save time and money repairing or maintaining your vehicle. I'm going to use my 20-plus years' experience restoring and repairing cars and trucks like this to show you the correct way to install parts from 1AAuto.com. The right parts installed correctly. That's going to save you time and money. Thank you and enjoy the video.
In this video we'll be showing you how to replace the tie rod on this 2001 Ford Taurus. It is the same procedure for any 1996 to 2007 Taurus. Tools you'll need: 18 mm socket and ratchet as well as a 19 mm socket or your lug wrench to get the wheel off, adjustable wrenches, needle-nose pliers, vice grips, some penetrating oil probably, a tie rod puller tool or a tie rod fork and hammer or actually you can use a hammer to get the tie rod out just be careful not to mushroom the end, 8 mm wrench and a grease gun with grease.
When your car goes for a State inspection a lot of times you'll see them jack the front of your car up and move the wheel around. What they're looking for is loose front-end parts, and basically if you shake the wheel- if you take the wheel on the top and bottom and go up and down and you can feel a clunking that's an indication of your upper or lower ball joint. If you can take the wheel on the sides and go back and forth that's an indication of your tie rod. If it actually does both then you need to figure out if you can take it and in any way shake it and you're feeling some looseness then that can be an indicator that your hub is loose. It also can be an indicator that your ball joints and your tie rods could be loose.
This is your tie rod end right here, and when you move the wheel back and forth if you look very closely you'll see that there's movement in relation to the steering knuckle and the tie rod. Using a 19 mm socket or your lug wrench, remove the tire. I am going to pull out the cotter pin. Sometimes it's easier to break it right off with a pair of pliers. It is pretty obvious why this tie rod failed. This is the grease zerk, and it's rusted and dry, which means it doesn't look like this was ever serviced. You want to make sure on your car you are always taking it to get oil changes and making sure that they're greasing things at the same time. I'm going to remove this 18 mm nut. You want to separate the tie rod from the steering knuckle, and there is right ways and there is wrong ways. One of the right ways is with this tool, which is a tie rod puller tool. It goes right on there and then pushes it out. You could use a fork, and then basically a hammer and you drive this fork right in between and it pops it out. You can, but you need to be very careful, you could use a hammer and a tool and beat the tie rod up and out like that. What you have to be careful of is that you don't mushroom the end of the tie rod so it doesn't go through the steering knuckle cleanly. If you do it this way what you might want to do is put a bolt on the end here, put your bolt back on the end and then hit it using that bolt so that you hit the bolt and you don't ruin the tie rod.
What I'm going to do is use this tool and mine happens to be a 19 mm here. It just kind of came right out. Interesting. As you can see I've got two adjustable wrenches on here. I've got one on the tie rod itself and then one on the nut back here and I'm just going to pull on the nut one to loosen it up. I'm going to loosen it up just a half a turn. I'm gonna lift this up and out I'm going to twist off the tie rod end. Here is my old tie rod, my new tie rod. I'm going to compare them. Lengthwise they're the same so we know that if we mount the new tie rod the same exact way we should have a good preliminary alignment. A new tie rod comes with a new nut as well. The new nut is basically the same width as the old one. What I'm going to do is take a piece of tape and I'm going to put it onto the shaft to mark where my old one is. I'm going to use a pair of vice grips to lock onto the shaft and see if we can get this bolt off. If necessary you want to use a bit of penetrating oil to see if you can't loosen it up. I've got my vice grips on here and after soaking this with a bunch of penetrating oil and letting it sit for a while I'm able to undo the nut here.
After looking at them right side by side the new nut is just slightly thinner than the old one. What we'll do is we'll just leave one thread between where the new one goes on and the tape just to compensate for that. That should give us a good preliminary alignment. After you do a repair like this you really should go and get the car aligned. Now with your ball joint take the nut off and move that plastic cap that is just protecting the rubber boot. Go slowly until it's up to the nut. Take our vice grips off here and install it. Put the nut on here. Take our two big wrenches again here and make sure that nut is nice and tight up against our tie rod end.
Here we use our torque wrench and you want to torque this bolt between 35 and 40 foot pounds, once it clicks. Then we'll check the hole where you want to put the cotter pin through and if you need to you just tighten it up a little bit more so you can get that cotter pin through there. Now we'll put the new cotter pin in, bend it down and around. Bend that around and we'll put this grease fitting in. Just use our pliers and we'll tighten that up with the proper 8 mm wrench. Now we've got our grease gun, pop it on there. Basically, pump some grease into it, and now you can see the grease actually coming up and around the edge there. That's enough. That's good and full of grease. We will actually check the grease on the other side and put the wheel back on and we'll be all set.
I'm going to just fast forward putting the wheel back on. What you want to do is put on all the lug nuts by hand. Then I just tighten them up kind of preliminarily with my gun and then on the ground torque them to 90 to 100 foot pounds using a star pattern as you tighten.
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