Tie rod flip on Explorer

I am flippin the outer tierods on my 01 Sport trac and can't find the sleeve inserts. Anyone know where I can find them?

have them made by a shop in auburn, WFO concepts. OR WIDE FUCKIN OPEN CONCEPTS AND ASK for Trevor, he made my sleves for my old f-150. or devious customs makes the sleves for f-150s so maby they have them for sport tracks.

what does fliping the tie rod do?

gives you frame clearance w/o notching for the tierods. but if that's all your changing it will fuck shit up bad. are you flipping the ball joints too?

damn dude, that's a low fukin sport trac! nice!

USUALLY WHEN A person does a tie rod flip they flip the ball joints on the spindle which is called the spindle flip, but if you have no room to notch for the tie rods then you flip them, flipping just the tie rods dosent hurt any thing. just makes more clearance.

^^ sorry man, but i gotta disagree strongly. I put the belltech spindles on mine, and belltech moved the tierod mount up 2" just like the hub, and it fucked up handling and ride like you wouldn't believe. I had to flip the tierod just to get it back to stock geometry and it rides like a stock truck again. Flipping the tierod without any other changes would change the tie rod travel in relation to the control arms and cause the toe to change dramatically with any suspension travel.

The deal is that after we shortened the lower control arms and put in the custom upper arms when its layed out it the tie rod go way high in there swing... so much that it causes 3-4" tow in.

The idea is if we flip the tie rod when its layed out the tie rods wont get so close to vertical which will put the swing of the front suspension back into a more reasonable track with the tierods/rack.

But if anyone else has a trac layed out on 22s that has fixed the steering feel free to chime in.

PS we already cut the frame to make room for them to travel up without rub. No the ball joints are not fliped.

if u only flip the tierod ends then you are gonna have problems..it will cause ur toe to move as ur suspension moves and it will move a lot...believe me i tried it and had to pu tit back and notch