I am trying to replace the inner tie rods on my manual rack and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to remove the old ones. Anyone do this before or know how?

 

I've never done one on an fc before. If it's similar to other cars then pull off the boot, straighten out the retaining washer, and take it off with an open end wrench or adjustable wrench. Reinstall just like you removed it, but in reverse order.

 

Haven't done tie rods on the manual rack, but on the PS rack there is a washer to straighten out. When you start spinning out the inner tie rod out of the rack a small pin will pop up from the rack that's used to keep the tie from from loosening itself out of the rack. Aka just be a man and muscle it out, but dont forget to use a pair of pliers to push that pin back in.

 

https://www.rx7club.com/2nd-gen-archive-72/inner-tie-rod-replacement-write-up-%5Bpics%5D-773735/

1st page of archive

 

Nice! OP should have searched

 

Can't believe I didn't see that. I searched the archieves but appearently not hard enough. and the FSM doesn't give very good help either.

 

np np just been going thru archives lately (final steps of engine swap) and remembered seeing it.

 

What kind of inner tie-rod did you get? Im about to do mine and just looking for an opinion

 

Raybestos

 

Inner tie rod removal tool is a must IMHO

 

absolutely
i did my inner tie rods yesterday and that tool made it a breeze