i have bought 3 track rods now and i have told them this and whats happening is its the wrong track rod end the spindle that goes t hrough the hub is anrrower than my old one and the rubber is sitting on the hub and splitting them now my old one has a 17mm bolt but these ones have 15 mm bolts any ideas ppl

apparently according to qh in qpid live there is a mark VI 1.8 xr2i model i have two part numbers

one is for the mark 4 QR2926S and apparnelty these were the mk4 hubs which were put o nthe fiesta 1.6 in 1995 which have a bigger thread 10mm and the older mk3s have 8 mm the part number is QR2377S weird