Help with outer tie rod thread size

After you are safe and home could you explain how this nut vanished in the first place? Normally people can’t get them off. Lol ehhhhhh

 

Yeah the only way it could have come off is if the coder pin was never installed by my "mechanic". Just fortunate I wasn't going 60 down a highway. I was driving down a dirt road 3 hours from home and went to turn and almost ended up in the ditch.

 

Have you got it figured out? I can try to run out and put a thread gauge on mine real quick.

 

M14x1.5 on my 2003. Can not confirm on earlier models.

 

Yeah, I am curious how it came apart without some noise and irregular steering feedback. And without jacking up the threads...

 

My guess is improperly installed cotter pin and not torqued to spec.

 

I stayed at a friend's cabin up here, couldn't get anything figured out. The tie rod I bought wasn't the same size so that didnt work. It did Jack up the threads but they aren't completely fucked. I was driving on sand, I didnt hear anything weird but I was going 60 mph down a highway about a mile before it came out. Turned down a dirt road and I noticed it started pulling to the left, when I tried to make my last turn it came out and I went straight.

 

stop giving Emmet from Michigan a hard time man!

 

You are very lucky. Things could have gone much worse.

I think that I would either get a thread gauge and ID the tie rod end threaded stem, or remove the nut from the other tie rod and match up a new castle nut. Renew both cotter pins if you go this route.
Just make damn sure nobody drives that truck before it is repaired.

 

I took the other castle nut off, I've narrowed it down and the size should be m16x 1.5. I called 3 different fastenal and none of them have a castle nut that size. I'm going to have to just find a nut that size and use washers to space it up to the codder pin to get me home.

 

Perhaps Toyota has the nut.

 

I found a nut at an ace hardware, got washers and codder pins. Hope this goes smooth.

 

Thank you Jay, I know better than to throw around the word help, unless I actually need help.

 

Good!
Prolly a good idea to pull the tapered tie rod end back out of its bore and inspect the threads, the tapered shaft, and the bore.

 

I made it home safely, going to have to have a talk with my mechanic tomorrow. Ask him how that nut would have come off if there was a codder pin in there, and codder pins dont just fall out.