# Transport Canada recall 2003135

A recall listed here may apply to a vehicle of this year, make and model. Only the manufacturer can say whether it applies to one vehicle: check the VIN with the official lookups.

- Published by: Transport Canada \(Canada\)
- Campaign number: 2003135
- Manufacturer's number: 03509
- Reported: 2003\-05\-22
- Component: Steering
- Notification type: Safety Mfr
- Units potentially affected: 115

## What is wrong

On certain vehicles, the tapered hole in the steering arm was machined oversized.  The clearance between a correctly sized drag link ball stud and the oversized tapered bore is sufficiently great enough to allow the ball stud to fatigue and potentially break.  Also, the castle nut could completely back off, causing the drag link to disconnect from the steering arm.  If the ball stud breaks or the drag link becomes disconnected, all steering control of the vehicle would be lost.  Correction:  Dealer will replace the steering knuckle and drag link.


## Vehicles this campaign lists

- [2003 INTERNATIONAL 8600](/makes/international/8600/2003/recalls.md)

## Bulletins for the same vehicles and component

A bulletin is the manufacturer's note to its dealers. It is not part of this recall.

- [IK0500054](/bulletins/11019106.md), 2025-06-04, Service bulletin
- [IK0200013](/bulletins/10251409.md), 2024-03-06, Service bulletin
- [IK1000003](/bulletins/10204139.md), 2021-12-07, Service bulletin
- [IK0500058](/bulletins/10129174.md), 2018-02-21, Service bulletin
- [IK0500038](/bulletins/10129173.md), 2018-02-21, Service bulletin

## Check a VIN

- [NHTSA recall lookup by VIN, United States](https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls)
- [Transport Canada recall search, Canada](https://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/7/VRDB-BDRV/search-recherche/menu.aspx?lang=eng)

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