CLOSED WarFab Tie Rod Sleeves GROUP BUY

Y'all have some crappy UPS people. Mine looks bad but the bag held up just fine.

 

I had tape all over my bag, all while UPS kept posting "Arriving Today" only to arrive 3 days later. Received a a pair; thankfully, and installed. Thanks War Fab, and thanks for the group buy. I finally made it to a good one..

 

Thanks for absolutely butchering this package, UPS. Also, I got 3 of the 4 I ordered

 

I had the same problem except I only received 1 of the 4. Someone needs to buy the USPS lost item pallet....

 

I will gladly pay extra for the items to be shipped in a box

 

3/4 is better than 0/4

 

Yeah I'm thinking @WarFab Armor May have to start shipping these in boxes due to the absolute ineptitude of UPS. It stinks that that's additional cost but I'm sure we the customers are more than willing to pay that little bitty extra bit of insurance. I know I am and several others in here have mentioned the same. Definitely not warfabs fault.

Btw.... These things are total beefaroni

 

Send me one! I wanna see!

 

Did these while I was replacing lower coilover bearings and spacers, install was straight forward and near idiot proof.
Driver side tie rod end unscrewed with 20 rotations, but I was only able to get 18 on with the sleeve...passenger side was 15 rotations off and on.

Alignment scheduled for later this morning.

Update - Of course I didn't expect much from my lifetime alignment at Firestone...at least they didn't attempt to do a tire rotation this time. That said, they wouldn't mess with the driverside due to "your aftermarket part, the left side cannot be aligned".

Interesting to see what they were able to do to the passenger side and what impact it has on the pulling to the left.

Again thanks for these beefy sleeves!!

 

@WarFab Armor any idea of how many sets you have left, for the ones where UPS failed to deliver our goods

 

He’s stressing out from all this and thinking about stopping the offering vs the headache so I chose to leave him alone… I figured I’d remind him in a month or two an go from there! I’m in no rush for this mod but I want what I paid for, fo’sho!

 

Wondering if that's what I'll need to do in order to get my alignment trued up. Running entirely stock tie rod inner and end.
I was only able to get 18 of 20 rotations needed on the driverside. I was within half a rotation on the passenger side.

Oddly enough the toe specs when I got to Firestone were damn near identical...Not sure how they made the driverside toe worsen by 0.84 inches compared to how it came in...


I did tell them about the driverside being maxed out with the new sleeve replacing the jam nut, but had to leave before they worked on it (the techs are kinda used to my Taco alignment needs and will chat with me briefly before putting the alignment sensors on the wheels).

Guessing I'll need to do your technique and then try clamping the crap out of the flared inner part with some larger needle nose vice grips and see if I can get a few more rotations on the sleeve post wallowing out.

 

I agree that could be the only factor changing it. I did it to where I had a little bit of extra room to play with so that I could mess with the alignment. It’s worth a shot for sure in order to get alignment true especially if the amount of turns was off.

 

You might be right with regard to caster in my case, and like you said same year and factory truck will not likely be installed the same way with the same spec'd part...part of the 'game' that we play with these trucks.

I'm not worried about it, and again am more than impressed with it's heft, the fit and finish of them are way more than I'll technically ever need. Happy to have had the opportunity to jump on the GB and happy to have learned about it, so again thanks @boogie3478 for you end of getting this out to us!

Update 7/24
Of course Project Farm did the yeomans work for me https://youtu.be/cdT9QxG9qe0

 

And what email should we hit you up at?

 

Ahh for sure, I'm not in a hurry for this particular mod either, I can revisit this in a month or so as well... but I definitely want what I paid for, freaking UPS!

 

I took my truck to Firestone and told them to do a “toe and go, don’t fight the aftermarket UCA since it has caster built in”. Mine came out fine.

 

The teflon lined bag or a small box? Whatever is easiest for you guys! Anything works as long as UPS can't lose them again

Thanks @WarFab Armor

 

Sorry, here you go.