Lucky I have the last bargain Ferrari to keep me company :)[ATTACH]
JB weld, problem solved You can't really tell from the photo, but is the crack clean and shiny the whole way through to suggest it is all new? I once had a rear control arm fail, put me into the wall at full speed. Looking at the break afterwards, you could see there was around 20% of the cross section of the shear that was old, so just a matter of time for the rest to eventually fail. I bet that is what has happened with yours, a pre existing small crack that has sheared with the new bolt.
Yep, can’t really see from Greg’s pics, but I’d like to see it in person as I’ve done a metal failure analysis course through work around 10 years ago and we study failures in metal parts like this all the time. In saying that, doesn’t take much to take a quick look to see just how fresh that crack is. I wonder if it’s a common fault in the 550/575 model. I haven’t searched, but I wonder if someone else had shared the same problem in the 550/575 section of FerrariChat in the past.
Not a common fault for 550/575. It may have been over-tightened in the past, it may be that Greg's torque wrench needs calibration, it may be that the 50 trillion potholes on Aussie roads weren't included in Ferrari's load calculations... The lesson for all of us is to clean and inspect your steering apparatus annually.
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I have a theory as to what caused the failure. If you look back at that pic, the crack goes right adjacent to the bolt hole which holds the protective cover in place. That bolt was ridiculously difficult to remove and seemed jammed in there. The thread in that hole had been partly stripped in the past. I compared the bolt to the other side and it was significantly larger. I think it was basically jammed in there in the past, probably caused a microfracture and then went onto a complete fracture when I put the new tie rod in. Anyway, I'm glad it happened in the garage and not on the road and it gives me confidence that a 2nd hand part will be fine. I'll leave the other side as is. I'll run the broken part through the CT scanner at work for interest when I get back to work next year and post pics
