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Thanks Doug, that’s interesting. I was quite wary of over tensioning. These tie rods don’t look particularly strong and I can’t see what the benefit would be from a structural perspective to go overboard. As you say you have had two broken rods so there does appear to be an inherent limit to avoid nuisance breaking, particularly given the state of our roads now. I’m happy for the moment that at least I now have some tensional stress back in the structure and the outer portions of the lower axle appear equally strained, and the car rides the bumps beautifully too. In hindsight perhaps for the record I should have recorded the torque...