Alright, I've needed to change my tie rods for a while and got around to it today, but I didn't have the special tool to do the inner so I just threw the outer rods on. Now under acceleration its pulling to the right! I have not had it aligned yet, I want to do the inner rods before I do that. The alignment was a little off before and it's about the same after I installed the new tie rods, any suggestions?

 

Give a quick check to your lower control arm bushings for any play. Bad LCA bushings would give you the pull you describe.

 

Torque STEER?

 

Replace the inner and get it aligned ,it should be ****. I'm sure you just threw off your alignment doing the out.

 

definitely I bet the alignment is crazy now.
My car pulled to the right allot and turned out the control arm bushing was fried.
Straight as an arrow now cruising to WOT.

 

Well, the problem was that the parts store gave me the wrong tie rods 😂 rookie mistake, I should've noticed. They were too long, got the inners in and the toe was completely out of wack, so got the right parts now and am doing it today! I'll let you guys know if I have the same problem after the alignment

 

You don't need a special tool. Bend up the stupid tabs and unscrew it.
Another overly complicated design for no reason. Where is the inner tie rod gonna go? LOL

 

lol yea I didn't see the tabs so I guess they have been replaced once, I didn't bother putting the new ones in, swapped them in less than an hour

 

So I finished the tie rods yesterday, took me less than an hour to swap out, then I went for an alignment today. The knuckleheads did a terrible job aligning my car, they managed to straighten the wheels out but my steering wheel is cocked to the left and still pulls to the right under acceleration, and now when I'm going around a bend on the highway, right or left, it jerks to that direction, almost as if one wheel is turning more than the other. I'm so pissed, I would not be recommending Mavis/cole muffler for any work. Although I will say they were professional and very kind, even gave me 2 10 dollars off coupons, got the alignment for 60$

 

Well they need to get it right if you paid...

 

I know! Pretty sure they didn't even drive it afterwards to make sure it was ok, always had to do that when I worked at Goodyear. And I dropped it off for about an hour and a half, more than enough time to align it right

 

So after about 3 hours, they finally called and its driving straight, thank god. Car feels a lot better being aligned