Originally Posted by theisgroup
yeah right. Just do me a favor. Take any one of them and see which way the tread goes. and then turn it over.
WOW, I now have a right threaded turnbuckle. As I said, the only time you need to actually make a right hand thread\left hadn thread anything is if they are not symetic. and our steering links and turn buckles are symetic, so all you have to do is turn it over to work for the other side.
/////\\\\\ turned over \\\\\///// wow left hand and right hand thread. now if you are saying that each turnbuckle has a left hand and right hard thread on the same turnbuckle. then sorry, i miss understood.
The fact that the threads are "opposite" on either end is what distinguishes a turnbuckle from a piece of threaded rod. If the threads were the same over the length (as a piece of threaded rod), and assuming you had "flats" on your piece of threaded rod and that the ball ends remain attached to their ball studs, turning the rod either way would not affect the length at all. You would just be unscrewing the rod from one ball end while screwing it further into the other. The turnbuckle, with it's opposing threads (left on one end, right on the other) allows both ends to either screw further into our out of the ball ends simultaneously.
Remember how much fun it was to adjust toe , etc, in the good 'ol threaded rod days? Pop off a ball end and twist it further onto the threaded rod "tie rod". Then have to accept a compromise because you had to do full rotation intervals because the ball studs were both facing up or both facing down. Cars that had one up one down allowed half-turn "fine tuning". Nah...I'll take my turnbuckles, thank you.
Scottrik