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Sorry Andrew and Brian Z, just a little frustrated yesterday. I wish I could pick up the phone and get the right part...but it's just not working out. Here's where I am todate:
The remanufactured steering rack is correct but the inner tie rod ends supplied on the rack are not (at least not for my car).
Saab (Canadian Dealer) initially told me that the tie rods are the same 86-95 but then found a different listing for some 86-87 models, apparently for models destine to U.S.? He realy wasn't to clear on this, and he informed me that he would not be able to tell me (by VIN #) if my car is one of these. At any rate he doesn't keep any tie rods in stock and couldn't provide any more info on them (lenght, thread size...) They are $134 CDN/side and not returnable (Yikes).
A friend, who owns an auto wrecking company, did some checking and found one of his changeover listings indicates that a short rack (rack without inner tie rods)will fit 86-95 but a long rack (with inners tie rods) fits 88-95. The only possible reason he could find for this was a change in steering knuckles on 88+ cars. This 'somewhat' confirms Saab's findings.
I ordered new inner and outer tie rods from another independant and recieved the same inners that are installed on the remanufactured rack (1-1/2" too short and wrong thread pitch for my car)and outers that are the same length as my outers but with a coarse thread pitch.
The bottom line is I'm still no further ahead. I think for now I will have to remove the supplied inner tie rods from the remanufactured rack and install my old inner and outers. At least I'll have solved my morning sickness problem.
If any one can source inner tie rods that are approximately 13-1/4" long and accept a 12mm x 1.25 outer tie rod I'm interested.
Thanks,
Ro
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