Inner Tie Rod 2006 Aveo Hatchback with Automatic Transmission

[gingerdyde]

Alright, I'm glad to hear your repair is holding up well still. I liberally applied red locktite to the driver's side inner tie rod threads. These lasted 110k miles, if the car makes it to 220k the rack will just be replaced. I haven't put the outers on yet, but I will definitely put some anti seize on.

The biggest problem with mine isn't that the hole is stripped out. It's more that the old tie rod left a decent amount of its threads literally stuck (melted?) to the very first few threads of the rack. I can't even get the new tie rod to catch on the rack to start turning. I'm going to try and pick up a tap like OP and see if it helps.

The other thing I was thinking was to just drill out those first few threads. If you look at the tie rod, the thread ends before it reaches the "bolt" part, so threads wouldn't even be holding there even if the threads were perfect.

She doesn't even have a horn anymore, but don't want to destroy the airbag. I'll just tie it somehow. Hopefully it doesn't come to that though.

[flood404]

If you can't get the tierod to start threading you will need to tap or chase the threads out then. Good luck on finding one. Or try using a pick to remove the metal shavings off the threads the old inner tierod left behind. Just enough to get the tierod started in the rack.









Since this car has 110k miles on it you should replace the rear brake shoes once you got this done.
My friend bought his 2004 aveo with 120k miles and the 3rd day of owning it the driver rear brake shoe friction material came unglued from the metal support and locked up the wheel. I found this is very common with the stock brakes that came with the car. It required 1 whole day to use a slide hammer and axle puller to get it off if that happens. Even though the shoes looked good you can peel off most of the friction material with your fingers or a small flathead screw driver.

I recommend getting autozone's $50 brake drum with new bearing that is sealed for life with it since his came with serviceable ones. You will need a axle nut socket to remove the nut.