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Inner Tie Rod tool?

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LC5F:
Can't say for sure - I was interested in getting my Golf back on the road, I managed to snap 3 out of 4 16mm consol bolts and disabled the Golf for 8 days - so I was nearly throwing it back together!
Personally I would prefer to reduce the strain on the rack by keeping the steering straight ahead, but if you go full lock it may well poke out enough -but I would suggest stilsons would be more useful than a massive spanner with only one use.

Sandpaper - good idea - I got that skating type first, it failing miserably on my Mk3 Valver and sat in the roll cab for at least 5 years, at least I finally got Torvill & Dean to work.

pudding:

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--- Quote from: svvg on July 24, 2020, 05:40:48 pm ---I've seen two styles of inner tie rod tool - and the longer pipe style (where you insert a crows foot at the end) look to be good?

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I did mine recently, I have had a cheap tube one that I have had for years and used on several VW's - it's great as you can confidently undo and torque with it...
However the Mk5 inner track rod is bigger than my tool can accommodate - I just measured the stump of one of the rods in my scrap pile, its 38mm across the flats, too big for your spanner.

In desperation ended up using the type below - that I had struggled with in the past, It does have a tendency to skate more than grip, but to my surprise I got it to work, the bigger diameter must help.


There is a good amount of space down there - Look into getting a Stilson type of wrench

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I also have the tube style one that you slide over the tie rods, but that was for my old MK4 R32.  Thanks for sparing me the frustration of jacking it up and finding out the hard way that it doesn't fit  :grin: :happy2:

LC5F:
Actually... the tube could be used -
Years ago there was an online DIY for making one, I can remember a length of scaffold pole, 4 holes drilled & tapped and you just add bolts to grip onto the inner tie rod.  I can't remember how the other end worked for 1/2 inch drive -it may have been a socket sacrificed to weld inside the tube.

Back to the present day - the tube tool has 2 bolts already to hold the adaptors - you just need to add 2 more bolts and away you go!

svvg:
I think there are two style of tube. One has a cam/clutch type arrangement and the other has lugs to retain removable/different sized crows feet. The crows feet version might be ok? Will attach something links...

svvg:
This style has internal cams:

https://www.gsfcarparts.com/987aa5941?auto_apply_coupon=SHOP60&gclid=CjwKCAjw9vn4BRBaEiwAh0muDOv07BqxcGPVMZYpstot0R-umR8nYT73fA37aLINFnsC2SsrOPGX7hoCNh4QAvD_BwE

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