Who is making these in stainless steel?
The difference here between a stainless steel fastener and a stainless steel tie rod sleeve to me is how much its being tightened. A faster is usually torqued to a specified amount, which can cause galling of the threads. Here the sleeve is being used as a nut. If you ask any good alignment tech they will tell you not to overtighten the tie rod nut. There is no need, especially since even if the nut come loose the tie rod end cannot rotate. The inner tie rod would have to rotate in it's ball joint to have the tie rod actually come loose and fail.
I will be painting anything that is installed under the bronco.
Yep that does change that the inside of the JKS sleeves look like they are raw mild steel?
I'm also building a powder coat oven, so that would be my plan #2
Yeah that was my point originally though with paint or powder coat there is likely not any on the threads. Any paint or coating on the threads would be too thick allowing them to not thread on so they are likely raw. Eventually raw threads will lead to rusting to the tie rod. I honestly think the stainless doesn't look too bad.
Only $25 more? I might just get those.Yeah that was my point originally though with paint or powder coat there is likely not any on the threads. Any paint or coating on the threads would be too thick allowing them to not thread on so they are likely raw. Eventually raw threads will lead to rusting to the tie rod. I honestly think the stainless doesn't look too bad.
In my experience, galling isn't necessarily a result of overtightening, but can happen in normal torque ranges. That bing said, your chances of galling are less since it isn't stainless against stainless.
