Does anyone have any experience with this?

I think it would be in my interest to flip it to the top of the mounting point, to eliminate the angle the 2" leveling kit puts on it.

I assume that the ball joints bolt is tappered?



Here is a picture of the tie rod end. It doesn't seem to be tappered to greatly, has anyone simply tried flipping it and bolting it down, in attempts to try to get the tappered area to seat in as well as possible? I am sure that boring out the hole is an option, but would hate to do that if I didn't have to. If I did have to bore out the mounting hole a bit, it would be ever so slight by the looks of the picture, this seems very easy. I could be wrong though.

I did'nt really take a good look at it when installing my lift kit, but I feel like it was mentioned once before.

 

Just my thought, with the taper that is in that threaded stud, it won't go all the way down and you might end up with a significant angle of some sort if it is flipped too?

 

I know you can do it on some Jeeps. You have to drill out the knuckle and put an insert in and tack the lip. http://www.goferitoffroad.com/products.htm

 

There is some tapper to the bolt, that blows that they do that.

If I could flip the tie rod, then the angle would be perfect with a 2" leveling kit. Just figured I would look into it.

 

i did just that when i put my leveling kit on. it didn't affect the driving at all but i saw it more as preventative maintenance. i just drilled it out. but you could grab a cone for jeeps and just put it in there and tighten it all down.

but what im doing with my long travel is grabbing a heims and drilling out the spindle to the size of the bolt and doing it that way. better than our crap balljoints