After all of the months and money involved in the rebuild, I took the 964 to a shop to have the wheels realigned. The manager asked me to come back to the shop area after about fifteen minutes when the car was on the lift. Never a good sign. We walked over and looked up at the front left underside of the car. The mechanic doing the alignment pointed to the driver’s side tie rod. It was so badly bent, it could not be adjusted. It had to be replaced. They, however, could not do it. I scheduled an appointment with Henry Riley to do the tie rod replacements.
This is the driver’s side tie rod before it was replaced. It was so badly bent, it could not be unscrewed, it had to be cut in half. You can see the bend. Someone’s previous attempt at adjustment was done with a pipe wrench, leaving the tire rod adjustment scarred and rusted. A ten minute job took nearly an hour.
This is the driver’s side tie rod after it was replaced. You can see how straight and rust free it is. Now, it can be easily adjusted.
This is the right side tie rod before it was replaced. This side has not bent or abused and thus does not have nearly as much rust. A ten minute job took about ten minutes.
This is the right side tie rod after it was replaced. A ten minute job that actually took about ten minutes.
