Kit Includes: (2) Front Sway Bar Links (2) Front Lower Control Arms with Ball Joints (2) Front Strut & Spring Assemblies (2) Front Outer Tie Rods (2) Front Steering Rack & Pinion Bellows (2) Rear Shock Absorbers (2) Front Inner Tie Rods
Specification
Steering / Suspension Option
with RPO Code FE1 (Soft Ride Suspension)
Location
Front & Rear
TRQ suspension kits are manufactured using premium raw materials and coatings for extended service life. Each TRQ suspension component is designed to be a direct, maintenance-free replacement to the stock unit. To extend the life of your steering and suspension components, TRQ recommends replacing components in pairs, sets, or kits. All products are fit and road-tested in our Massachusetts R&D facility to ensure we deliver on our promise of Trusted Reliable Quality.
Product Features
Application Specific Design: No modifications necessary
Anti-Corrosion Coated: Enhanced surface life
Pre-greased: No additional maintenance required
Kitted for Restored Performance: Improved road-feel and handling
Our direct fit gas-charged shock absorbers help restore your vehicle's handling and ride quality to just like new.
Replacing struts used to require specialized tools to compress, remove, and transfer the old spring and mount. Our Pre-assembled, complete strut & spring assemblies come with all new parts and make the job much quicker and easier for the do-it-yourself mechanic.
Strut & spring assembly contains:
Upper Strut Mount
Strut Bearing
Coil Spring
Boot & Bumper Kit
Gas-charged Strut
Install Tip: When replacing steering components, have a professional alignment performed afterwards. This ensures proper tracking and even tire wear.
Our steering and suspension components are pre-greased and sealed for long life and do not require the extra maintenance typically required by greaseable versions.
Item Condition:New
Attention California Customers:
WARNING: This product can expose you to chemicals including Chromium (Hexavalent Compounds), which is known to the State of California to cause cancer, and birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information, go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov
Lifetime Warranty
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How To Replace Steering Tie Rod 2003-07 Cadillac CTS
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How to Replace Front Outer Tie Rod 2003-07 Cadillac CTS
How to Replace Front Passenger Side Lower Control Arm 2003-07 Cadillac CTS
How to Replace Front Sway Bar Links 2003-07 Cadillac CTS
How to Replace Front Drivers Side Lower Control Arm 2003-07 Cadillac CTS
How to Replace Front Inner Tie Rod 2003-07 Cadillac CTS
How to Replace Front Drivers Side Struts 2003-07 Cadillac CTS
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Tools used
13mm Socket
Torque Wrench
Hammer
18mm Wrench
8mm Wrench
19mm Wrench
18mm Socket
19mm Socket
Measuring Tape
Ratchet Strap
Center Punch
Ratchet
1/2 Inch Impact Gun
Marker / Writing Utensil
Tools used
13mm Socket
Torque Wrench
15mm Socket
Pry Bar
Jack Stands
19mm Socket
Trim Tool Set
Pick
21mm Socket
Drill
10mm Socket
Swivel
1/2 Inch Impact Gun
Tools used
Adjustable Wrench
A Piece of Pipe (for leverage)
Hammer
Torque Wrench
Tie Rod Fork
Jack Stands
18mm Socket
19mm Socket
Floor Jack
1. Testing the Tie Rod
Jack up one of your front wheels
Grab it by the sides of the tire and try to move it back and forth. If you feel more play than just the steering rack moving back and forth, then your tie rod probably needs replacing
2. Removing the Front Wheel
If you don't have air tools, you'll want to loosen the lug nuts with the wheel on the ground
Lift the vehicle with a jack, support it with a jack stand, and take the wheel off the rest of the way
3. Measuring the Tie Rod
Before you disassemble the tie rod, you want to measure the tie rod
From a fixed point on the rack, like the end of the boot, you want to measure to the middle of the tie rod
Measure a few times to be sure-you're going to set the new tie rod up the same length
4. Removing the Tie Rod
You'll see a lock nut at the end of the tie rod. Holding on to the tie rod with a wrench, use your adjustable wrench to loosen that nut about a quarter of a turn
There is also am 18 mm bolt that nut that holds the stud on. Remove that
Separate the tie rod from the steering knuckle by using a tie rod fork. Taking a hammer, you'll drive the tie rod fork between the rod and the knuckle
Once the tie rod is separated from the knuckle, turn it clockwise to get it off the steering rack
5. Replacing the Tie Rod
The new tie rod should come with the bolt in it. Take the bolt out for now.
Thread the tie rod onto the nut, measure from the same fixed point as before and make sure it measures the same. Take a couple of measurement.
Also, make sure you do not twist the shaft that comes out of the steering rack. Doing so will change your alignment.
6. Securing the New Tie Rod
Once you have the measurement correct, then you can put the tie rod back into the steering knuckle and start the bolt on there
The lock nut at the end of the tie rod is an 18 mm nut. Holding the stud of the tie rod with an 8 mm wrench, tighten up the nut with your 18 mm wrench
Once the 18 mm wrench is tight, grab another wrench and hook it on there for leverage. Give it another pull just for good measure
Torque it to 65 foot pounds
Put your wrench onto the inner tie rod to get this locking nut back out against the outer tie rod. Tighten
7. Replacing the Wheel
Turn the wheels straight, and put your wheel and tire back on
Start the lug nuts by hand at first to primarily tighten them.
Lower the car back onto the ground
Set your torque wrench to 90 - 95 foot pounds and tighten your lug nuts in a star pattern
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To test your tie rod, what you'd want to do is lift one of your front wheels up and grab it by the sides of the tire there and kind of move it back and forth. If you feel play more than just the steering rack moving back and forth, then that's usually your tie rod is bad.
Tools you'll need are jack and jack stands, 18mm and 19mm sockets, a ratchet with a pipe or a breaker bar for some extra leverage, two large adjustable wrenches, 8mm and 18mm wrenches, tie rod fork, and a torque wrench, as well as a large hammer.
Start out by removing the front wheel, and if you don't have air tools like I do you'll want to loosen the lug nuts with the wheel on the ground, then raise your vehicle with a jack, support it with a jack stand and take the wheel off the rest of the way. Turn the wheel to make it easier to access the tie rod. Okay. So before you disassemble the tie rod, what you want to do is you want to measure from a fixed point, which I'll choose the end of the boot right here, then you want to measure to the middle of the tie rod. Okay. So, again, you're measuring from a fixed point on the rack itself, which is this clip here, to the middle of the tie rod. And you're going to set your new tie rod up that same length.
So here I just take a couple of measurements to make sure. Mine are measuring eleven and three-eighths, but it's obviously going to be different for each vehicle. Okay. Now, the tie rod is held in. There's a lock nut here. You need to grab that with a large adjustable wrench, then hold onto the tie rod itself in that slot and loosen that lock nut. Then there is a little nut here that holds the stud on, and then you need to separate the tie rod from the steering.
You put one arm through the nut here, this bolts onto the tie rod. Turn that nut about a quarter of a turn. This bolt is 18 millimeters. Take an easy way out ... so if you don't have an impact wrench you'll want to use a breaker bar or a ratchet with a piece of pipe to give you some extra leverage. Now, here, you can use either a tie rod tool only because there is limited clearance between the tie rod and the vacuum plate here. I'm actually going to use a fork. You just basically drive this fork right in that separates the tie rod and the steering knuckle.
Once you get the tie rod separated from the steering knuckle, you just turn it counter clockwise and get it off of the steering rack. Okay. The new tie rod from 1A Auto comes with a bolt, take the bolt off, and you put it back on.
Okay. It is kind of a reverse procedure. You thread the tie rod in, measure from the same point, from the end, I chose the end of the boot on the rack, make sure it measures the same distance. I take a couple of measurements. Make sure you do not twist the shaft that comes out of the steering rack because that also will change your alignment.
Speaking of alignments, we do recommend that you have an alignment performed after you do a replacement like this. Once you have the measurement correct, then you can put the tie rod back into the steering knuckle and start the bolt on there.
Okay. Now, that nut is a lock nut, so what you will want to do, or what I'm doing here, is holding the stud of the tie rod with a 8-millimeter wrench, and then using an 18-millimeter wrench to tighten up the nut.
Okay. So once I've gotten the 18-millimeter wrench tight, I grab another wrench, hook it on there, and just give it another good pull, tighten it up more before I torque it.
When I torque it to 65-foot pounds. Now, you want to put your wrench on the inner tire rod and get this locking nut back out against the outer tie rod, and then lock onto the outer tie rod and tighten so it will lock up against it.
Okay. Now, you can turn your wheels back straight, and then put your wheel and tire back on, start the lug nuts by hand first, then just preliminarily tighten them. Okay. With the car back on the ground, set your torque wrench to 90- to 95-foot pound and tighten your lug nuts using a star pattern as your guide.
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Tools used
Impact Screwdriver
Torque Wrench
Locking Pliers
Hammer
Copper Anti-Seize
22mm Wrench
19mm Socket
Straight Cutters
22mm Socket
Tools used
Pickle Fork
21mm wrench
Torque Wrench
Locking Pliers
Hammer
Rust Penetrant
7/8 Inch Socket
8mm Socket
18mm Socket
19mm Socket
7/8 Inch Wrench
1/2 Inch Impact Gun
Tools used
13mm Socket
15mm Wrench
Torque Wrench
Hammer
18mm Wrench
Jack Stands
18mm Socket
19mm Socket
Torque Angle Gauge
21mm Socket
Pickle Fork
21mm wrench
Dead Blow Hammer
13/16 Inch Wrench
5mm Hex Socket
Center Punch
Ratchet
1/2 Inch Impact Gun
Tools used
15mm Wrench
Torque Wrench
Locking Pliers
Rust Penetrant
15mm Socket
5mm Hex Socket
19mm Socket
1/2 Inch Impact Gun
Tools used
13mm Socket
Torque Wrench
Hammer
Rust Penetrant
15mm Socket
18mm Wrench
Jack Stands
18mm Socket
19mm Socket
10mm Wrench
Torque Angle Gauge
Trim Tool Set
21mm Socket
Pickle Fork
21mm wrench
Dead Blow Hammer
Flat Blade Screwdriver
13/16 Inch Wrench
5mm Hex Socket
Center Punch
Ratchet
1/2 Inch Breaker Bar
1/2 Inch Impact Gun
13mm Wrench
Tools used
Torque Wrench
Hammer
Rust Penetrant
18mm Wrench
18mm Socket
19mm Socket
Liquid Thread Locker
7/8 Inch Wrench
Pipe Wrench
Pick
Pickle Fork
21mm wrench
Locking Pliers
Inner Tie Rod Removal Tool
7/8 Inch Socket
8mm Socket
Hose Clamp Pliers
1/2 Inch Impact Gun
Tools used
13mm Socket
Torque Wrench
Ratchet Strap
Hammer
18mm Wrench
Pry Bar
Center Punch
18mm Socket
19mm Socket
Ratchet
Floor Jack
1/2 Inch Impact Gun
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Do these fit a 2010 CTS ???March 21, 2024
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Yes, this part will fit your vehicle as long as your vehicle comes with RPO Code FE1 (Soft Ride Suspension).
March 21, 2024
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