Steering Tie Rod Assembly Problems of Ford F-450

The contact owns a 1999 Ford f450 super duty. The contact stated that the front passenger side tie rod detached from the vehicle while driving between 45-50 mph. The contact crashed into the guard rail, but there were no injuries. The vehicle was towed to his residence. The manufacturer has not yet been notified. The failure mileage was 70,000. Updated 08/31/09 updated 09/03/09.

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Ambulance was responding to a call and experienced a sudden loss of steering control. This was caused by the steering link becoming disconnected from the steering knuckle arm. The disconnected steering link was cause by a broken steering link tie rod end. The tie rod end separated at the threaded nut end. Review of the tie rod end showed signs of the rod end being cracked through the threads for some time; as evidenced by the signs of rust. It is believed that either, the nut was over torqued hen installed at the factory or that there was a stress fracture created when the threads were being cut on the tie rod end.

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