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someone said elsewhere- 323L outside rightside and 323R inside rightside of car AND 323L inside of leftside of car and 323R outside of leftside of car. Which is it?
Don't they refer to the right and left hand threads? There may be a convention set in the AIM or the Shop Manual. But I put all of my left-hand threads on the left side of the car (heim-jointed strut rods work similarly).
Thread them into the sleeve.....the sleeve is the tell....can only go on one way. One end of the sleeve is RHT the other end should be LHT, so when you spin it one way or the other to align, they either spread apart or come together.
But it should be interchangeable.....both tie rods are the same save for the thread. Must just have been how they were installed at the factory...same side to side....
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Last edited by Jebbysan; May 20, 2020 at 12:53 PM.
i feel much better. 2 conflicting ways to install them. left hand treads to the right of the tie rod, or left hand threads to the outboard side of the tie rod.
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Once you have them put together, the assemblies are identical and can be installed as a driver or passenger side provided the sleeve is the same length. I would install them so that when you rotate the sleeve up, it expands and down it contracts when viewed from the same side, either from the front or rear. It'll just make it Easier when aligning the front end
Last edited by Rescue Rogers; May 21, 2020 at 10:00 AM.
I marked my left hand threads with red tape (red = port = left), and have them all towards the left side of the car.
The clamps, as pictured in post 10, are specific side to side (not the clamps themselves, but the orientation), so if you assemble everything off of the car, it will matter which assembly goes where. But right hand vs left hand is your own preference.
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so i assume right handed threads are the insides on both sides of car and left handed threads are on the outside, right?
