Thread: who needs those HIGH $$$ steering joints, not me! ! !

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Toomany I like this idea. The auto manufacture went thru design and safety before it used them. I fugure as long as proper securing and support are maintained its as safe as anything available. I hope i can locate some of the same for the A. It will have to be all ford though .

Tuesday's are half price even at the U-Pull it yard.

I have a throttle by wire amazing how it feels just like a cable and spring set up. I just hope i dont wear out the wire from my footing it (LOL)

From what i'm learning all parts have been adapted from some type of doner vehicle . Even Borgenson Didn't invent the steering assembly they adapted to it .

I use the stuff from 'auto recycling' yards as often as possible - but I wont compromise on safety items. The vehicle that you take a steering part from is there for a reason that does't always come from sudden stops - like against a large oak tree - sometimes that vehicle is just plain worn out with 150-200,000 miles on it - including the steering flex joints. When, IMHO, I equate the perceived savings between a shiny new one at $65 versus driving xxx miles to the yard , spending xx hours searching and pulling 'just the right piece'(MAYBE), then taking it then xxx miles back home, spending xx hours cleaning the rust and years and miles of crud off it, I have a problem. Where are the savings? Especially if it's damaged, not the 'right' one - and the yard wont take it back.
(You can fill in the x's with your number for miles and hours)

But as with most of us we have more hours to tinker with small stuff . I mean money is not a issue here except at tax time LOL. Safety is of the utmost importance . A skilled mechanic can diagnose a bad bearing or worn part. I see alot of low mileage vehicles in the yards from just drive line failure or electrical . A rear end collision will not effect steering mechanism's Nothing wrong with good used parts keep millions of people on the road daily.