is what allows our steering rack to move in and out side to side up and down to change angles as we turn and as our suspension geometry changes whether we're going over a bump or something like that but this is super loose inside another reason why it's so floppy like this now our new one is actually pretty tight you can see it's packed full of grease right here i actually probably won't even be able to adjust it because usually you have to have it threaded for those first couple of movements and it doesn't have any floppity it just moves like that so that's more what we're looking for as compared to this guy right here and now it is time to install our new inner tie rod now this one has what looks like a locking washer that goes with it so you'll see the two tabs there are supposed to actually go towards the steering rack because they kind of lock in there we'll slide that on we'll start our inner tie rod and then as it gets snug we'll line that washer up where it needs to go and snug it down all right so once we have it snug let's go ahead and get our installation tool back on slide our fitting on slide our big green tube on here lock it in and tighten it down now this one with that locking washer deal we want to kind of fold it over a little bit towards our inner tie rod to make sure that our tie rod doesn't come loose it's time to put our boot on you'll notice that i have put the clamp on the boot before i put the boot on the car this is a pretty good habit to get into to make sure that you don't have to feed the clamp over the boot or anything like that i'm also replacing it with a worm clamp versus a crimp clamp because this is the clamp that i have that fits this is fine on a steering rack you definitely wouldn't want to put one of these on say an axle or something that rotates but for this application totally cool also you'll notice on our inner tie rod there's this groove right here this is where the outer part of the boot stops so what i'll do is i'll put this boot on till the outer part stops but i'm not going to worry about the inner part just yet going back together with this stuff the order is pretty important otherwise you get to take it apart and do it a second time we'll put our outer spring clamp on now when we go back together with our new jam nut new outer tie rod i'm going to count the threads from the first thread to where our green paint mark is we'll then count the other inner tie rod and put our jam nut in roughly the same spot so this is NUMBER_TOKEN threads to this mark right here we'll put our jam nut on then we'll run our outer tie rod on next so we're going to count our NUMBER_TOKEN threads to where our jam nut was and then what we'll do is we'll mark it so that we know where we need to stop with our jam nut then we'll go ahead and spin our jam nut on to the place where our green mark is before you put your outer tire rod on make sure you have your jam nut your clamp your boot your inner clamp all on because at this point it's not too terribly challenging to take it back off and put the thing you forgot on but after we put our outer tie rod it's a
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