After exhausting every thing I could find on the net, I went to auto zone and advance and bought every option of inner and outer tie rod I could find for power and manual steering. I have been trying to convert to manual steering for a while now btw. I tried to de-power my power steering rack and it ended up breaking immediately so I bought a used manual rack. *I love it!!!*

Anyways, I measured all the pieces of tie rods, and all the outer ends were the same. The ONLY difference in inner tie rods is the passenger one, and it only has a different thread (its bigger) at the base. It is negligibly shorter than the driver side one. So, if you swap to a manual rack, keep those inner tie rods and you can use the better of the two on the driver side of your new rack.

Other differences: You will need the passenger side mount for the manual rack, and the rubber piece that it sits on. Slightly smaller than the power one. Also, you need to keep the dust sleeve for the passenger side.

Other than that, the manual unit mounts right up in place of the power one!

pics will be up soon...

 

Power and manual, rack side by side:





Driver side:

 

Passenger side, note differences:









See,^ the driver sides are identical, and the passengers' different.

 

Random pics of the innards of a manual rack and how to care for them:

 

wanna sell me your ps pump assembly for cheap ? is it an s5

 

Nice, I drove a car with manual steering before and it really doesn't compared to my de-powered rack in terms of steering feedback. Be aware that the manual rack has a considerably larger ratio than the PS racks. I have a crappy S5 NA 17:1 rack that I de-powered (bled fluid, looped lines, removed pump, pulley, reservoir) and I'm very happy with the result.

 

Sorry, it was s4 and is sold...

 

How about the outter tie rod??? i think the manual rack has 2 part number (the passanger and driver outter tie rods are different???) .

 

Can you show pic of the outter tierod set for manual vs power rack?? (ofcourse if you have this parts)

 

I already took them back, but everything looked identical to me. I returned all of the manual rack tie rod pieces except the inner passenger, and am currently running the power steering version outers on both sides, no problems. The manual parts looked identical to the ones on the car now.