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I don't know the length of the rod Arie but I had a friend that made new rods for his carrier using metric material as imperial was no longer available. The metric rod was undersize. As a result the thread was not full depth and a rod end pulled off when steering was applied. When that happens you not only lose steering to that side of the vehicle, the action of the equaliser linkage ensures that you have no brake pedal function at all. The pedal just goes to the floor as the linkage pulls the failed rod.
It is absolutely critical that you get this right as if one rod end fails the only braking you have is steering input to the other side so long as it doesn't fail also.

David