It%26#039;s a 96 automatic non-turbo sedan. I know I will need an alignment (most likely the toe), but I was wondering if it was a job that can be done at home, or should I leave it to the pros on Monday? I already have the part, and nothing to do tomorrow!|||You will need to take off the tire. Once you take off the tire you will need to get under the car to loosen a 21mm (as far as i remember) nut which keeps the outer tie rod attached to the inner tie rod.
Once you do that you will need to use a 13mm (as far as i remember) wrench and make sure the outer tie rod end is not seized/rusted to the inner tie rod. You will move the inner tie rod around to see if both are moving freely.
If both are moving freely you can now use a 18mm (wrench/impact or whatever you have available) to loosen the tie rod end form your steering knuckle.
Once out have done all of these you can spin the tie rod end off while you count how many turns it took to get it off. To put the new one on as close as possible you spin it back on as many turns as it took to take the old one off.
It will get you close to where the old one was originally. You will still need to get an alignment but it will be close.
Hopefully that helps.|||buy a manual at the parts store, they can be done in less then an hour on most cars, u need a pickle fork jack and wrenches, lug wrench, it should be easy|||are u sure that the old one is bad ?
you gonna have jack up the car and remove the tire
once you have done that then your half way done.
but just a quick recap, before you jack up the car make sure you break the lugs loose so then it would be faster to take the lugs off once the tire is off the ground.
make sure you count the number of revolutions its gonna take to remove the bad one.
its best to let the pros do it
it is very easy if you know what to do. but if your not sure u gonna kill the whole day and not get the job done.|||If you know what you are doing, you can do it yourself. You have the shop manual and the tools you need eh?
Alignment even isn%26#039;t that challenging to do yourself, the main stuff is to know what toe setting you want, and measure and adjust until you get it, and also make sure that the steering wheel is dead center... it is actually easier getting the toe set correct than to get the steering wheel centered. You can measure toe with a measuring tape, measure gap between front wheels at fronts of wheels and at backs of wheels and then take the difference.
