Heim Joint Rod End

Here is the deal, the taper on my spindle is wallowed out and my solution is to drill the taper out and bolt on a female heim joint with misalignment spacers. Anyone ever done this?

I've got a drop bracket lift with aftermarket spindles so purchasing a new spindle is a bit out of the question.

The link below is for the type of heim I am looking at.

https://www.motionindustries.com/productDetail.jsp?sku=06464550

 

no one here has ever experimented with heim rod ends?

 

Are you replacing the tierod end with this?

 

That is my thought...yes. I've put hiem steering kits on a couple jeeps and an early bronco with luck. I see no reason why it wouldn't work on a tacoma, but wanted to run it by the forum first. Maybe I'm missing something.

 

The only issue I see possibly happening is that with the tapered fit, there is zero play in the tie rod where it goes through the spindle. Once you drill out the spindle If where the bolt for the heim goes through isn’t almost like a press fit you probably will wallow out the spindle, there can be no play there that’s why they use the taper on both the ball joints and the tie rod ends.

 

I like the idea though.

 

Just what caused the problem in the first place??

Has it been corrected ?

How long was it driven with things loose ??

Have any Cracks appeared ?