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Old Oct 30, 2017 | 08:01 AM
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What is it?

Question from a new Excursion owner. What is the large diameter bar that the steering stabilizer attaches to? Thanks in advance.
 
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Old Oct 30, 2017 | 08:21 AM
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They are commonly referred to as tie rods in the parts house computers.
 
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Old Oct 30, 2017 | 10:11 AM
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Coil/link instead of leaf spring front end but the steering parts are the same.
 
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They even call those drag links inner tie rods in a lot of the parts lookups. It confused me at first.
 
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