I have a currie tie rod installed on a d44 axle. After driving about 200 miles today, the tie rod fell off on the passenger side. Seem that the nylock nut came off (one of the nylon locking nuts). Anyone have a problem with these? Should I replace both tie rod nuts with new nuts and locktight before torqueing? This really freaked out my wife, not to mention me. I've never seen one of these nylock nuts back out before.

 

Still baffles my mind why they did not include castle nuts with cotter pins for the $800 price tag..

 

I think a castle nut would have been better. You can't believe the flak I'm getting from my wife on this, not that i blame her. If that nut had fallen off while i was driving at 65 mph, well, don't want to think about it. Wonder what Currie will have to say on this??

 

Must be a fluke thing Currie makes top notch stuff.

 

Wow! Not good! I'm wondering what Currie had to say about it?! Good luck man!

 

I lost a little sleep over the issue myself and thought about wire brushing the threads clean after installing the nuts. Then putting a dab of thick orange rustoleum on the threads so if it does start to back off hopefully the paint will keep it from coming all the way off.

 

Not only that, Currie did not paint the clamps for the tie rod and drag link. Mine were rusting like crazy after only one month of ownership. I had to pull everything off and use Rustoleum on them.

I have order cheaper parts from Teraflex and everything came nicely painted.

 

Putting paint on the threads to help the nut from backing off sounds like an idea. I'm thinking fingernail polish might be better. Is there a Currie rep on this board?

 

So if your tie rod came off, I'm assuming you lost steering? Did anyone get hurt?

 

Blue locktite will do the trick.