Replacing inner tie rods...

[orion_134]

My inner tie rods are flopping around so I bought new ones and am going to replace them this weekend. While I'm in I'm gonna replace the factory F8 stabilizer shock, but I wonder if I should replace the outer tie rods as well? Do they wear as quickly? I know I can get the alignment close by matching the lengths of the inners, but if I do outers and inners at same time, will it match up as closely? And if I do go as far as outers, is there anything else I should do "while I'm at it"?
Thanks in advance,
Jesse

 

[fordtrucker4life!]

I usually replace all inner and outer at the same time. You can check the outers maybee they are not bad, but I would replace them. If you count and measure the threads you should be fairly close, but for safe measure have it aligned.