that's why i went with heims on the tie rods with my own homemade breakaway aluminum bolt/shafts through them. slam something with the front end and slap a new bolt in. haven't bent a steering arm since i wasted the one with a grade-8 bolt through the heim. done in 3 aluminum bolts so far and it took so pretty major hits. (only 1 actually broke) only thing bending around the heims are the thru bolts (grade 8s) and misalignment spacers because i had no choice but to to reduce down to 5/16ths bolts for the thru bolts on the upper a-arm.
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