1976-08 Club Car DS - Left-Threaded Tie Rod End
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Club Car uses a rack and pinion style steering set up with tie rods and the whole shooting match. This means that you have a central steering box that your column and steering wheel drop down into. Then a shorter tie rod runs down and connects to a Club Car DS Left-Threaded Tie Rod End onto your spindle. Then from your spindle, a longer tie rod connects the two spindles with a tie rod on each end to allow the wheels to turn when you spin the steering wheel. If one of these parts fails, it could mean losing one direction of turning or no steering at all.
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I also have the Jake's 6 inch lift on mine and it worked great.
No sure what you are referring to. There are two front tie rod ends a left thread and a right tread that connect to a female threaded shaft. The rack and pinion on the DS is attached to the chassis and has a tie rod end on one side that goes to the passenger side next to the other tie rod end. I am not sure if that is a left hand tread, need to ask. Right hand is like a normal bolt so if the nut turns left to right to tighten (goes in toward the joint) its a right hand thread.
Before you take any thing off, carefully measure the length from the right tie rod end grease nipple to the left end grease nipple and record that to the closes 1/16 inch or better. On reassemble match this same length to avoid having to do a toe in alignment. If replacing the rack tie rod, accurately measure the number to turns it took to unscrew it from the connecting rod and replace the tie rod end to the same number to turn. Its not that critical but you want the rack centered when the cart it traveling in a straight line.
Regarding bushings those are on the leaf springs and the control arms. All the front ones are the same size from what I remember. Each point has a set of two. One set is on the bottom between the leaf spring and the bottom of the spindle/Wheel bearing assembly and the other set is on the top control arm to the top of the spindle/wheel bearing assembly. The are made of hard plastic and easy to install once the bolts are removed. The inside has a tube the goes inside the bushings that the bold slides into. The rear suspension also uses these same plastic bushings but has one set in the front to the chassis and two sets to the rear leaf spring to chassis BTW.
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R.D.
It goes on the opposite side of the tie rod as the right hand threaded one.
I had the same issue. Bought a new tie rod, had a friend cut it in half and weld about a 4.5" to 5" extension on it. (He cut the extension piece from the old tie rod). Works fine and have had no problems with it.
Not sure!
Best to call the buggies unlimited
