I already received my new TCAs last year but still hadn't fitted them yet. But now I thought it was time to finally fit them. I quickly ran into the first 'problem'. Under full droop the ball joint turns quite far inwards, which causes the knuckle to very close to the eye in the TCA where the ARB is fitted. If the steering is then turned the head of the pinch bolt in the knuckle slightly touched the TCA.





It touched the TCA at the thicker edge from the casting. Likely that could easily be filed down a bit, after which there is just enough room. In practice it wouldn't really be a problem, because it only happened on full droop with a lot of steering angle.



With a standard TCA next to it you can see the additional length on the ball joint pin.



After fitting the TCAs I also needed to fit the new tie rod ends. There I ran into the next problem. The new tie rod ends are longer than the standard items, which meant the tie rods were too long. I could have cut them, but then there was not enough thread on the tie rod to put the tie rod end on. After searching for a solution I found that some regular 2wd tie rods I had lying around were actually shorter than the 4x4 ones. They were still a bit too long, but at least they had enough thread left after cutting them to length.



Unfortunately I still couldn't fit the tie rod ends. At full droop the angle on the tie rod ends was too big for the rose joints. So I changed the rose joints from 1/2" hole to a 5/8" hole and used some high misalignment spacers to make the angle on the rose joint bigger. In order to fit the spacers I had the pins turned down on a lathe by a local company. But after this everything finally fitted.



After fitting everything I checked in a simple, not super accurate way how much spacers were needed on the steering pins to get no bumpsteer. In the last picture the tie rod was mounted in the highest position, which seemed to give no bumpsteer. This still needs to be checked more accurately when doing the wheel alignment.