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Grocery Cart
11-28-2012, 12:07 PM
I recently got Tein inner and outer tie rods with the spacer from frsport. I put those on and changed the rack also. I went get an alignment and the steering wheel was straight, the passenger side was set to 0, but the driver side was turning in. My wheels are like this currently / | with no thread left on the driver side inner tie rod to bring the wheel aligned. :wtc:
I've asked a few people with the same set up, and searched around but I can't find anything on this. Any idea what's going on and how I can fix this?

Tearlessj
11-28-2012, 12:20 PM
Tein Inners should come with their own spacer. Make sure you didn't double stack. I would just get Ikeya Formula inners. Everyone I know has bent a Tein inner before.

Grocery Cart
11-28-2012, 12:32 PM
I'm using the spacer that came with them.

blueshark123
11-28-2012, 01:33 PM
Was the rack centered before aligning anything

beems240sx
11-28-2012, 03:49 PM
i think s13 and 14 have different lenth inners? could have the wrong ones

NoPistons!
11-28-2012, 05:57 PM
If tein inners come in different lengths due to s13 and s14 having different lca lengths that could be your problem.

Are you using a thread on single side spacer, both side spacer or just basic slip on rack shims?

Taylor008
11-29-2012, 12:14 AM
S13 and S14 tie rods are the same length, s14 is thicker.

Do you have knuckles?

The rack must not be centered.

Post your question in the roll center, steering angle modification thread. You're probably gonna need new tie rods if you have knuckles.

Pink Slut
11-29-2012, 03:00 AM
yea center the rack first, sounds like it has never been done before there for you are running out of thread, you deffo shouldnt run out of thread with simple tein shit

N2HIFI
11-29-2012, 06:40 AM
Sounds like you need a better alignment person