I am planning to rebuild the front end on my 1970 Vista Cruiser this winter and I am pretty sure I want to go with Moog parts because of their known quality. But when looking up parts and prices I found 2 different part #'s for the outer tie rod ends- ES314RL and ES333RL. I looked at some pictures at one site and I believe the ES333RL is longer than the ES314RL. I also found a discussion on a Buick site where a guy was rebuilding his Skylark front end and he said the 333 was longer than the 314. I also found that 2 different sleeves are available for this car!! I'm just thinking if a guy got the wrong ends that they may end up too short or too long... Anyone ever heard of this?? I guess I will have to measure the ones on the car and attempt to get the same length replacements... If you guys have ran into this before let me know what you think. Thanks, Greg

 

Rockauto only lists the ES314RL for your car with a 350 or 455 engine.

http://www.rockauto.com/catalog/raframecatalog.php?ck[ID]=0&ck[idlist]=0&ck[viewcurrency]=USD&ck[PHP_SESSION_ID]=9tstic2tti6db26hfmlf1enp14

 

Eric, ES333rl came up as the correct outer tie rod end on the Moog Site. So I looked it up on Rock auto and found it was available along with the ES314RL. ( about the same price) I guess I checked too far and got confused... I think if I ordered the parts from Rockauto using their catalog look up and something was wrong that they would make it right. Sometimes when you look to much you end up with more questions than answers...

 

The internet is a great thing and I agree sometimes it can be confusing. Hopefully Rockauto is correct.