Inner tie rod replacement advice

[JFP in PA]

Originally Posted by mikesz

Does anyone have experience replacing inner tie rods? I have inner and outer tie rods, new steering rack boots/clamps and tool to remove inn er tie rods. The boots came with silicone grease. Is the grease for the inner tie rod or to get boot on more easily? Any advice on how to get clamp on over the rack? Any advice would be greatly appreciated

We do it regularly. If you have the correct tools, it is pretty straight forward. The grease is for the inner tie rod end, the boot just slides on. As you have to disconnect the tie rod to do the installation, sliding the boot on again is straight forward.

[kk2002s]

I bought inner tie rod tool from Harbor freight. It is SAE but the one size fork is so close it works for Boxster. It makes removal and install with Torque wrench easy. I figured it would be a 1 use tool but at $40+ dollars was worth it
I replaced boots with worm drive clamps