They are OE brand from Advance auto.

I took the bar and ends to them today. The old tie rods fit snug. The new ones fit kinda loose and sloppy. They ran the numbers and said the tie rods are the same all the way back to 84 at least.

So, does anyone have a center link they want to part with? Because either these rods are really poorley machined, or my center link is toast. And right now I have no way to tell unless I have a another center link to compare it too.

Today when I came home i looked at this mess again and noticed the castle nuts that came with the new tie rod ends are only half as tall as my factory original nuts. With the factory nuts on the shaft they tighten up with the cotter pin hole just above the nut. The eye of the cotter pin might just catch a slot in the nut if I were to try and use them.