I was wondering if anybody has had any trouble removing the tie rods on their VX Commodore? I was helping my dad work on his this weekend and the threads were unusually tight, to the point that even with heat they stripped the threads on the rack end of the tie rod,luckily the threads are intact in the rack though we can't fit the new tie rods, they need to be tapped out with a thread tap. What I found is SUM KNUCKLEHEAD (whoever builds & supplies the racks to Holden) staked the thread in place (bruised the outer female part of the thread) so that when the tie rods were removed it was going to strip the threads, why the hell did they do THAT for ??? The car used to be owned by the RAAF and my dad bought it at around 50,000 kms 10 years ago (It's a 2000 model) but it's done around 280,000 kms now. I didn't have that problem when I rebuilt the second hand rack (from a VTII) for my VY, only somebody had tampered with the tie rods and I thought the hydraulic crossover pipes should have O rings in them (this rack didn't have any) like they did in the rack I rebuilt for my VL, so I put them in. It would be interesting to see if they have done that to the original rack which came out of my car !!!