Technical Tie rod ends without Zerks

Hi All,
I am trying to find some traditional 11/16-18 tie rod ends (1.5" per foot taper) but without the grease fittings. Does anybody make these in plain steel? I like the sealed stainless rod ends some outfits are selling but they will not look right on my car, I want them painted black.
Please advise if you've seen them for sale anywhere.
Cheers, Steve

 

what are you working on? pics?

 

It's a 1934 Hupmobile 417W but my photos are too big to upload...will have to resize and upload later. The original tie rod was made out of cheese from what I can tell. It's got so many kinks and bends that I am going to make a new one out of some DOM tubing.
Steve

 

Go to the local parts house that still has paper catalogs on a rack at the parts counter and ask to look at the ch***is parts/ steering link catalog. Usually in the back of the steering link section there are pages that show each individual piece including tie rod ends and have the specs.

Here, 11/16 = .687 in the thread size column.
http://www.moog-suspension-parts.com/Universal_Outer_Tie_Rod_Ends.asp

The Moog tie rod ends are going to have a grease fitting as most high quality tie rod ends will so when you find one that fits your needs put that part number in a Google search and every other brand that makes one that is supposed to match it size wise should show up and you go to looking for the one that doesn't have a grease fitting.

 

I've got tie rod PDFs at the bottom of my links page:
http://www.flyingeyeballs.net/Links.html

 

I got my plain steel pregreased/sealed/zerkless ends from So-Cal. in Pomona.

 

I think you are speaking of the early type that clamped a ball? Model A style? If so, the only ones of that type I have seen without zerks are the ones that do not have threaded shanks, they look like huge throttle linkages where the rod is part of the tierod end. All the early style tierod ends that have the thredaed shank have zerks, that I have seen.
I'm about ready to weldup and delete some myself and have been looking for the others as well.

 

I gotta ask why? I can't think of any benefit at all of having no zerks.

 

Perfect, they are priced OK and appear to come with jam-nuts too. http://www.est1946.com/tierodends.aspx
Thanks, Steve

 

This website seems to dislike photos of my car so I give up. They can be found in the Hupmobile section of AACA if anybody wants to track them down.

I don't think the tie-rod ends are like the Model-A's from the description. They are no different than the ones found on current model cars and trucks.

The reason I want to go grease-less is that I've had a few vehicles with this style and they will last for at least 120k miles if not 180 k miles without any grease messing things up. I'm stuck with grease fittings on the king pins and spring shackles but am happy to get rid of them where I can.

Cheers, Steve