Topic: heavy duty tie rod kit??

[N8whitie]

So I got all of my suspension stuff ordered. I went with the BDS 4.5 system w/o the shocks because I'm putting the f-250 shock towers. With everything bought and priced out it was around 1400. so that leaves some extra cash. I was thinking about a heavy duty tie rod kit. Mine look pretty smoked and weak... seems unsafe. I was looking at this Rugged Ridge kit. http://www.quadratec.com/products/56118_103.htm   Let me know what you think or if its even necessary. Seems like beefed up tie rods can only do good on a trail but then again I don't know much yet. Thanks.

[neale_rs]

It can't hurt but it may not be absolutely necessary if you are not smashing the rods into rocks.  I've been running the stock rods for a few years now on some fairly hard trails with no problems.  If I were to buy it, I would carry it as a spare until the stock rods get damaged, and it might be for quite a while.

[oldjeep]

I'd just flip the stock tie rod (and I did).  Gets it up further out of the way and corrects the steering geometry.

[N8whitie]

Ok, thanks. I'm pretty sure its been on there since 1995 and it does look beat down so I'm going to go with a stock just to play it safe and maybe keep the old one as a spare to get me out of the woods if needed.