inner tie rod replacement and Outer tie rod replacement Prius

[@molpolkristine]

great video love the camera work and the custom made tools

[@EngineerPEretired]

Thank you - it took some effort to edit (as you can imagine) ... wish you the best with your car.

[@polostyle7151]

Thank you, I appreciate videos like yours and always give my due respect, not just in my behalf but those other's who benefitted from this video but didn't comment

[@EngineerPEretired]

I appreciate that

[@jafinch78]

Good detail, thanks for sharing! About to swap my drivers side inner and outer out. Have the whole steering rack and pinion assembly, though thinking is easier to remove the inner that already has the outer installed and just replace that section to save time.

[@jeff_desir]

If you keep track of where everything was before you should end up with similar results as you had with the alignment! Great job, about to do this on my yaris, very helpful video as I've never done inner ends before. Cheers mate!

[@EngineerPEretired]

Thank you for commenting and sharing... I just did this for round two, about 3 weeks ago, the part was not the greatest of parts and this resulted in replacing it again... Took about 35 minutes total! I ran through it.

[@jeff_desir]

@@EngineerPEretiredThat sucks! Can you please tell me which brand that lasted only for 3 weeks? So I can avoid it in the future! Inner, outer or both? Thanks

[@jeff_desir]

I misread that, 4-5 years of usage is not that bad...

[@EngineerPEretired]

Desir, please spend the money on OEM parts when it involves bearings (the cheap guys are just that, cheap) ... anything that the failure might cause your death, spend the money on OEM... I am referencing none-redundant systems... Besides, you are saving a ton on labor...

[@smartpedallabs9040]

Well done video, with good technical knowledge, narrative, and camera work.

[@EngineerPEretired]

Thank you Marc, nice compliment from you... it is appreciated. Best wishes to you.

[@sungn4512]

great and informative vid tutorial. Thanks for taking the time to produce.

[@EngineerPEretired]

Thank you kindly... Glad you could appreciate the effort... Wish you the best.

[@molpolkristine]

great video love the camera work and the custom tools

[@EngineerPEretired]

Thanks for the compliment - it took some effort to edit (as you can imagine)... wish you the best with your car.

[@caraddict1234]

how did the car feel and drive before changing and after? i have a 2005 prius, before i bought it it had crash damage on passenger side, here in ireland, i didnt know when i bought it, so its hard to keep car straight on the road without constant fighting the steering wheel ever so slighly but very often, constant, i checked tie rod ends and the driver side is more lose than other side, plus the inner tie rod moves in and out where as the other side doesnt so i guess that means the drivers side needs changing right? i just ordered the parts now for both sides, blue print brand, i hear thats ok to use on prius, my car cant be tracked , always in the red on the passenger side, even toyota cant track it so i presume coz of the crash damage, but im hopin the new parts mite help something, im hopin ha, otherwise i was told to bring it to get chassis checked for out of alignment, but i guess that wil be expensive to get checked and straightened out if needed, so i hope these parts might help before doin the chassis check,

[@nielcanson]

Was there some clicking feeling on the steering wheel and clunking noise coming from the rack and pinion area when you hit a bump before you replaced the inner tie rod?

[@EngineerPEretired]

Yes.

[@nicoj3660]

And what number millimeter is the socket? Thanks.

[@ewyatt3641]

should be 19

[@ZBrink11]

What model year Prius is this?

[@sebastienhenge8569]

hi, have you recieved an answer ? thank you

[@maverick19702000]

What prompted you to replace the tie rods?

[@sirsweetness8332]

Jeremy Davis I would say that the threads were seized due to rust welding in the rust belt. I get to do all 4 wheels on a Camry this weekend due to the same. Inner and outer rods and rear torsion bars. All rust welded and unable to align due to frozen lock nuts and threads in each female end. Rust belt. 😡

[@EngineerPEretired]

I was getting an alignment and was informed it could not be adjusted - it was frozen -you know the junk they tell you to replace an extra part and make money. But, once I looked at part, it was frozen... haha

[@Grahams-Grass]

has anyone done this on a 3rd gen 2010 ? as apparently toyota do not sell the inner tie rods you have to buy the whole rack at a cost or £1000.00 ......... . would love to know if you can change them on a gen 3

[@EngineerPEretired]

That is too odd... try a junk yard or don't believe them and keep researching.

[@Grahams-Grass]

Philadelphia Construction Engineering even the junkyard are wanting £500 the rack or £100 for 1 side of tie rods . Very hard to get them for a gen 3 . I've got a gen2 one I'm gonna try get machined

[@skorpyo331]

I dont believe that for one second. Their available online. Rockauto.

[@sirsweetness8332]

Where did you get that LARGE cutter? I want one for this and other steel parts that won’t come out. I need it this weekend 🤢

[@TomEllisPhotography]

I got the old inner tie rod out without any problem, but am having a terrible time getting the boot to fit on the inner end. Completely blind approach and not much room for my hands either. You commented that you had gotten yours back on more easily than you expected, is there some trick that will help me? Help please!!!

[@EngineerPEretired]

The clamp is what holds it on; I hope you removed that one time use clamp? Then just use a replacement clamp, it only requires enough clamp force to hold it in position with some grease pack into it. You might be missing something simple if it is not just sliding back on... I think I was referencing my ability to reuse the one-time clamp again... I did have a new clamp ready to go if it did not slide back on...

[@TomEllisPhotography]

@@EngineerPEretired Yes, I have removed the clamp but the boot does not want to slide onto the flange on the steering rack. I am using a new boot as I had to cut off the old one to remove the inner tie rod. Almost completely blind approach and very poor access for my hands, just cannot get the boot to slip onto the rack. I may pull the inner tie rod just to see if i can get the boot over the flange that way, but would certainly rather not do that if possible.

[@TomEllisPhotography]

@@EngineerPEretired I think that the boot I received may be too small, that would explain the problem

[@EngineerPEretired]

That is what I was going to suggest... Take the cut boot and piece it together and check/ compare it's inside dimensions

[@TomEllisPhotography]

@@EngineerPEretired Already did that, and yes the boot is too small. Opening of the new boot actually fits inside the old one. God but I hate incompetent salespeople!

[@blackjmyntrn]

what camera did you use to record this?

[@God_is_Justice]

excellent video

[@EngineerPEretired]

Thank you for being kind...

[@heleneschenbacher8512]

Well perhaps you have x-ray vision to see through his arm and gloved hands...I don’t.

[@EngineerPEretired]

You are a very negative person - I bet you are the life of the party or depressed all day long.

[@skorpyo331]

It would be so helpful to know what gen prius this is. The year?

[@EngineerPEretired]

2

[@skorpyo331]

Lol, same here, went to a battery n tire place n said nut is frozen, here i am. Preventing me from getting alignment. This after replacing my struts myself in the front. Awesome vid btw, 40 pounds torque too? Last thing, how waz the drive to get it aligned?

[@EngineerPEretired]

If, you noticed, I nailed the alignment = it drove like it was already aligned.

[@nicoj3660]

What year is this prius?

[@katiekeown2883]

So need your help..have a 2013 prius..I am being told need an inner tie rod..garage is saying no one sells it not even toyato..need a whole new coulum..is that true..bty don't know whole lot about cars

[@EngineerPEretired]

Katie, post the part they state you need, I trust you have the copy of the parts they claim you must get. An entire column is reaching but let's see...

[@EngineerPEretired]

PS If, they are telling you no one sells an inner tie rod, they are lying! RUN from this place but before you do, get them to put it in written form, that no inner tie rod is being sold! Then do NOT pay them a dime and let them take you to court! An easy internet search will show this is not a hard part to get.

[@arnoldchavez908]

is that a 2009 prius? ive been looking for the part and it seems that 2010 its not available

[@EngineerPEretired]

Which part?

[@wolfgreen162]

Its good to know that im not the only one who uses a monkey wrench on my cars. My neighbors think im crazy when they see me doing that.

[@EngineerPEretired]

LOL - the tools you have available -- as long as you do not tear up the equipment you are using it on... To hell with the haters... Just call them a ''living troll'' - Wish you the best.

[@sirsweetness8332]

wolf green I used a 24” pipe wrench and an 18” pipe wrench on a Tundra and an Avalon to unscrew the outer tie rods. 24” on inner and wedged on ground and 18” on outer to unscrew. It worked well. Sometimes you have to use King Kong tools on stubborn parts. Rust belt is a pain!!

[@EngineerPEretired]

Thank you for the support of the question... a lot of trolls on youtube attack you for anything they would not do... haha

[@imrickjames7012]

participating in life 😁😁😁

[@ForensicCats]

ImRIckJames , yes, awesome.

[@deandavis-troller46]

Your before and after readings are the same because they didn’t make an adjustment. The strange part is that those readings do not fall in the range that is specified. Your before and after readings are 8.4 and 9.4 but the specified range is 10.5-13.5 and 11.8-13.3 degrees. Why didn’t they do the alignment to spec?

[@EngineerPEretired]

I think that's the rear ad chamber, caster and toe are the front... I had them do four wheel alignments all the time but it's an honor system and can we trust these people? Maybe you are correct, but no adjustments are made on Prius rear that I could find and they toe in slightly from my fishing line check weeks ago. Fyi, I now do the fishing line trick and do my own, just like race cars do it... It's really not that hard and does have a an initial learning curve. Make sure you have all the tires at equal pressure or rather equal frame height from center of "hubs" , this way you can a clean alignment... I literally found a four point level ground for my tires to set on to do this more accurately. Road testing is removing hand off off of wheel and see if car tracks straight (do not accelerate or car my torque to one direction and then brake check to determine balance in that system also)... Very low tech but it gives you real world data on your brake condition and your alignment "function "... And may indicate replacement of parts needed.

[@deandavis-troller46]

@@EngineerPEretired did you make any “fixtures” to put in place of the little center caps to help with precision or better reading, post pics of them if you made any. I would be interested in a video on your DYI alignment technique. Thanks Dean

[@EngineerPEretired]

Dean, when the weather changes, I will put one together. I have done it about 5 times now and I am getting faster and faster at it. Use the rim unless you have different width rims and you have to decide about the rear toe and if you will duplicate it in the front or go with zero tolerance range... The specs allow for some range but you can dial into zero but it's weird that the rears are not adjustable and track in just a touch, 1/8 inch I recall

[@aaronstone105]

When did Joe Peschi get there?

[@skorpyo331]

My problem

[@EngineerPEretired]

Jump on it... matters unattended go from bad to worse.

[@skorpyo331]

@@EngineerPEretired what year is your prius?