Replacing track-rod-end ball joints
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Track-rod-end ball joints are not adjustable on later cars. If they wear, you must replace them. Read more
Steering box
Cars with steering boxes often have replaceable ball joints or rubber-bushed joints at both ends of the track rods, and on the drop arm and idler arm.
All there joints are replaced by the same basic methods, though the length of the rods may be adjusted by bolted clamps.
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