Replacing tie rods?

[treo]

Im in the middle of trying to replace my tie rods on my R33, ive got the steering rack out of the car so i can work on a bench. I have removed both steering rack boots and am now trying to remove both tie rods.

There appears to be four tabs to each side of the steering rack locking eack tie rod in to the rack. Ive used a flat punch to knock up the four tabs on each side of the tie rods however there seems to be something preventing me from removing the tie rods, anyone change there own before?

Any help would be great as i would like to get the car back on the road asap. cheers

[blind_elk]

The tie-rods are the outer parts of the steering system, and should be able to be removed without removing the rack from the car.

If you are trying to remove the rod (it doesn't seem to have a name, according to the [R32 GTR] manual - maybe its the "inner socket"), it seems it simply screws in and out.

[treo]

Im not trying to just remove the tie rod ends from the hub, im wanting to replace the whole tie rod and the tie rod end from the steering rack. My LH tie rod is bent i did it out at calder last weak, some people call them different things that is just the name i am used to. What i want to do is get my car back on the road without having to replace the whole steering rack and even upgrade at the same time to some stronger tie rods and ones that give me a little more lock to lock steering. Apparently some brands can give an extra 3 to 4% extra lock at full lock.

Anyways so i spoke to someone last night who was able tell me how the did theres on an s13, So once you have used a punch and hammer to tap up the lock tabs you then get a shifter and place it around the tie rod side of the tabs and just undo, if the rack is moving around to much to undo use another shifter on the rack side to hold it in place. It was so easy once i knew there was a thread and it was just a matter of untwisting.