Is this left or right thread?
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Is this left or right thread?
Got someone arguing with me. So I can't say anything other then get opinions to win the bet, lol. Thanks for your help in proving I'm right guys. 
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At near center in pic where the threads appear to start, it looks to me as though the threads are grooved up and away denoting a right handed thread. What is it, and has it spun in either direction?
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I'm saying left because it looks like if you could start if from the right side of the picture (where there are no threads) it would be right hand but since you cant start it from there................................left
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Right hand thread because the last part of the thread ends from left to right moving down. So a nut would be rotating clockwise to tighten (righty tighty). ***on a right hand thread***
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Just to hard to tell where the start thread is....and righty aint allways tighty...especially on tie rods...hell I dont know!!!
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I'm really thinking it's right handed. Buds insisting it's not. Needed to figure out to order a heim joint for my high steer kit, and order the opposite of the thread but he bet me $5 y'all would agree it was left.
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Pictures can be deceiving (think M.C. Escher) but if the threads move from the left (top) to the right (bottom) as the pic shows it is a right hand thread.