2003 Hyundai Accent GL steering

Anytime you do work on your steering, It will need an alignment, as I have seen many times in the shop, a lot of people do steering work. then its a "loose" steering. 99% of the time a alignment solves this. There are many points in the steering and it is almost impossible to re-connect the exact way it is supossed to. I would recommend both take the car to a alignment shop and explain that there was a bit of steering work done, They should recommend an alignment and that is all, unless there are other issues with the car. As a side note, in the last 15+ years I have seen this arguement of spouses, I will need more than one hand to count how many has failed.

You have to do a bit more than take off the outer tie rod, those are pressed in bearings the whole knuckle has to be removed to get the bearing out usually.. It is possible that the bearing was so tight that it actually dragged when turning left or right. And Ditto on above post. Good luck!!