Quick Ship SKU #: APX-KIT175 Apex Chassis KIT175 Extreme Duty Steering Kit 17-23 Ford F250/F350

Ford is known for having OK steering and if you pound pavement, it probably works well for you. As soon as you start taking it offroad or beating the snot out of it, it's short-comings start to become apparent. This is even more obvious if you have started experiencing death wobble. Apex Chassis has come up with a solution that give your steering a noticable strength upgrade along with a tighter feel, giving you a more direct connection from the steering wheels to the pavement.

A direct replacement extreme duty Tie Rod and Drag Link assembly to replace your underperforming OE steering. Oversized tie rod and drag link ends, connected by massive DOM tubes, eliminates death wobble and tightens up steering under the most extreme conditions. Weak adjusting sleeves are replaced via tie rod and drag link ends threading directly into the connecting rods, secured by jam nuts and our proprietary ninja lock-washers.

IMPORTANT NOTE: DOES NOT work with wide track models.

HOUSING

• SAE 1045 Solid Steel Forged Housing: This is unequivocally the best carbon alloy steel for this application.
• CNC Machined Housing: Make their parts and bearings dimensionally perfect, eliminating any die wear issues.

BALL STUDS

• SAE 4140 hot forged Chromoly Ball Studs: For the strongest possible metallurgy.
• Induction Heat Treated Ball Studs: Provides a very precise heat treatment to the exact depth and location we want it.
• Rolled Threads: Are made by pressing the shape of the threads into the ball stud instead of cutting. This strengthens the threads instead of weakening them and allows for easy movement of hardware. This ain't no Ikea furniture!
• Step Threads: allows for very easy movement of hardware on install and superior holding when torqued (installer choice).

BEARING DESIGN

• Rugged Metal to Metal Bearing

BOOTS

• CR Rubber Boots: The most durable material for undercar applications. Resistant to deterioration from road level ozone, oil/gas/engine fluids and extreme heat or cold
• Accordion Boot: Ideal for high-articulation components, more flexibility means longer life.

FINISH

• E-Coat Finish: Extremely durable. Double coated. Threads coated as well. Rugged look.

HARDWARE

• Grade 8 - Class 10.9 Hardware: Superior tensile strength.
• Castle Nut: Industry standard where high vibration loads occur.

ADJUSTING RODS

• 2.125" DOM SAE 1020 Tube: Heavy walled steel tubing provides the tightest most robust steering on the market.

LUBRICATION

• Pre threaded Zerk Housing: If you have ever installed a MOOG Ball Joint without a pre-threaded zerk fitting you will understand what a simple but great feature this is. Another installer fav.
• Greaseable: Because it should be.
• Pre-Greased: Just in case you forget, we have you covered.
• Gull Winged Grease Grooves: Allows for improved lubrication disbursement around the ball stud.
• Zerk Fittings : Included for every application.

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Ninja Washers (tm): An APEX exclusive is the Ninja Washer which is a unique method of securing the lock nut to the tube, erasing the need for lightly built adjusting tubes with ugly pinch clamps. And who doesn't want a ninja on their front end.
• Greasable, High Articulation Spherical Bushing: For extreme durability our passenger side tie rod is fitted with an oversized greasable high articulation spherical bushing. This allows for maximum articulation and load dispursment, for better perfomance, and longer life.
• The upper tie rod features a straight hole but includes a tapered sleeve to accommodate a factory style upper steering stabilizer shock. The reason for this is that some suspension lift kits require you to flip the orientation of the tie rod, and by allowing you to insert the sleeve from either end, this will not prevent you from flopping it and still running a stabilizer. This also works with aftermarket stabilizers such as the Carli Suspension High Mount that utilize a bracket to fit into this tapered hole. Its worth noting, though, that because this tie rod is larger than stock, kits such as Carli with a radiused bracket may not have direct contact and you may want to grind the radiuses to match in those instances.
  

IMPORTANT NOTE - Due to tie rod ends being 1/8" larger in diameter than OE, modifications may need to be made to dual stabilizer kits, tie rod end brackets to fit.