steering is all messed UP!
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steering is all messed UP!
Changed front tires, did alignment, and now my steering wheel is all messed up. Straight for me means my steering wheel is upside down...
Argh anyone got a possible answer to this??
Argh anyone got a possible answer to this??
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Yep, pretty much. Take it back.
Any minute steering wheel offset can usually be solved by relocating the wheel on the splines - but that is after they correct the gross error.
Any minute steering wheel offset can usually be solved by relocating the wheel on the splines - but that is after they correct the gross error.
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Lets say the steering wheel was straight up and down but the wheel was at an angle, either to the left or the right. The sensors would never read. Plus the person doing the alignment would notice when they were adjusting the front toe. Lets say they some how did all the above, the car would fall off the alignmet rack with the steering wheel off 360. Unless the guy did the alignment with the steering wheel upside down. Pm me if you want a real 4 wheel electronic alignment.
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Well it was impossible for the steering wheel to get so messed up from an alignment, especially when i just aligned the car a month ago. It happens that i know the owner and i work on his fd. What happend was that the bolts for the drivers side rack and pinion mount had backed out completely. The rack was only held by the passengers side mont, so the rack was moving left and right. When turning right the steering will stay 90degress off, but if you jerk the wheel to the left the steering wheel will get closer to the center. This is the first time that i've heard of this on a fd. But after bolting up the rack and aligning the car again, the car once again drives straight.
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Originally posted by rx7will
What happend was that the bolts for the drivers side rack and pinion mount had backed out completely...When turning right the steering will stay 90degress off, but if you jerk the wheel to the left the steering wheel will get closer to the center.
What happend was that the bolts for the drivers side rack and pinion mount had backed out completely...When turning right the steering will stay 90degress off, but if you jerk the wheel to the left the steering wheel will get closer to the center.
I replaced all the nuts on my rack mounts with locknuts.
Only the drivers side mount locates the rack left to right; the passenger mount merely clamps the rack to the subframe. So if the drivers side mount comes loose the rack can slip left to right and self steer the wheels, causing the steering wheel to go to weird positions.
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