Well I was up in the middle of the nignt so I went to the shop to set up the mill to drill the holes for the wheel studs. drilled my test holes in a piece of 3/8 with the 9/16---probabaly will not work, not enough knurl bite --off to the shop today to buy the correct drill for the original studs..
Thanks for all of your feed back on the tie rods--this is what so great about this site there are folks that will usually end up on both sides and that gives one a HEADS up to rethink, reavaluate, and the one gets to make a "englightend" decision lol seriously thanks for the pros and cons I feel confortable about our decision and especially about Marty skills who did the actual welding on this part!!