Well, after being two years lost, the "black beauty" went to MOT and has been banned with minor imperfections: right sided steering end rod busted.
I'm getting one of these to do the job. Seems pretty easy.
One question: If I do it very "slow" and trying to keep it "straight as it was" do you think I will have to make a full wheels alignment?
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I think if you're careful, you should be OK. If you keep the lock nut in roughly the same place and mark it with a paint pen or something like that, and then count the number of turns it takes to get the track rod off, it should be roughly in the same place. Maybe not perfect, but close enough.
Somewhere there's a thread called something like 'track rod replacement for the non-mechanically minded' I did a few years back that will take you through most of the stuff that can go wrong...
In fact, here it is... You're not taking the whole lot out, so it won't all apply to you...