Rack & Pinion recommendations?

Update - I just ordered one from McGeorge this AM for $505, plus about $60 to ship to my house.

 

Rack got delivered today, sooner than anticipated. Only took 5 days which was nice. packed well and no damage. Just fyi for everyone else, it comes with two of the 3 rack bushings - the D shaped bushing for the passenger side is not included. Gonna order it separately.

 

Ah my bad I forgot - I had a spare poly one lying around and blanked on it when you asked.

 

And for other people searching - the OEM rack comes with the inner tie rod ends attached, but does not come with outers.

And neither come with the locknuts.

 

Yeah that last part really burned my biscuits

 

Yeah I had thought about getting new OTREs but mine are only about a year and a half old, so they should still be ok.

The kicker is that I replaced my inner tie rods about as long ago and went with 555s because OEM inner tie rods were near $400 the pair. Where a new whole OEM steering rack is $505 with inners included lol

 

Yeah I about had kittens when I looked at the price of the inners. So glad they’re included with the rack

 

Yeah absolutely no logical reason to do just the inners if paying OEM price for them.

 

Which also really sucks, because I just replaced my rack with an OEM, and im fairly certain my inners have play in them again....3 months later..... But no way in hell im replacing the rack again, or paying $400 for OE inners

 

The "extended" travel lifts for a 1st gen are limited in droop by TRI's with some steering input.
At least this is the case for all the ones I've looked at.

 

I can only guess The Inner Tie Rod price went sky high or I got a good deal . Maybe the vendor changed causing the price to go up.

Both inner tie rods the lock nuts The Cam bolt Hardware I did not think The price was bad from my local dealer .

I got them thinking they might be seized when it went for Alignment