I did both inner tie rods as well as the outer tie rods on the Soccer Mom Minivan. Bought a tool on Amazon that looks like a muffler clamp with a cut out for a 3/8" breaker bar. Used a cheater pipe with the breaker bar to unscrew the inner tie rod off the steering rack. There may be a bent over tab washer that has to be straightened in order to remove the inner tie rod from the rack. Use a little blue locktite on the new inner tie rod to rack connection. There are a couple of videos on Youtube showing this tool in action. I rented an inner tie rod removal tool set from Advance auto part, but couldn't get the outer tie rod off the inner tie rod so I wasn't able slip the tool onto the inner tie rod. With the tool I bought you don't need to take the outer tie rod off the inner tie rod in order to loosen the inner tie rod off the rack. Also by removing both inner and outer tie rod, I just measured the distance for the assembly and install the new assembly with the same measurement thus saving me from having to get an alignment right away.

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