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Old 09-02-05, 11:25 AM
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FD Pulling right on acceleration

My FD is pulling right when I accelerate(nose up), and left when I brake(nose down).

I am looking for suggestions on where to look.

I have been refreshing the suspension this summer, here is what was already done:

6 pillow ball bushings
2 jimlab trailing arm busings
2 rear wheel bearings
2 front upper spring mounts (rears appeared fine)
4 eibach pro kit springs
4 new tires
1 alignment per Pettit's long track recomendations

The suspension appeared solid when doing the alignment, no wiggle.


Possible suspects:
1) bent/cracked sway bar mounts : had shop doing alignment take a look at front suspension, they said everything looked ok... Could a crack be small enough to miss easily?
2) shocks : these are stock touring shocks. If say one is bad, would you get wierd steering input on acc/dec? They appeared ok(push down on car test...), but could they still be bad? I'm wondering about the front left shock...
3) diff bushings : shifter moves around a bit(motor mounts were ok as of last year when reman put in), so maybe this? Would it cause this kind of pulling?
4) .... anything else?

thanks.
Old 09-02-05, 01:20 PM
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Check the diff bushings, tires, and I would also have the wheel/tires re-balanced.
I had the same problem and re-mounting and balancing the tires cured it.
Old 09-02-05, 08:22 PM
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Originally Posted by AX75F92
I had the same problem and re-mounting and balancing the tires cured it.
Me too.
Old 09-02-05, 08:46 PM
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4) anything eles?....I would check the PPF ( power plant frame ) broken or damaged.
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Have you checked your rear tire pressure? Uneven pressure in the rear will also cause this.
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Originally Posted by wan
Have you checked your rear tire pressure? Uneven pressure in the rear will also cause this.
I agree with wan. I had the same problem before.
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I second to check your diff bushing...
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i heard something about if a front bushing is bad it will cause this. your like supposed to stop hard at 5MPH then start again and see if the front wheel jerks.
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Thanks for the ideas.

Yeah, the tire pressure occured to me too, and I checked and double checked it, so ruled that out.

Gonna jack it up tomorrow and inspect things(ppf, front bushings), and if I still can't find anything I'll probably try having them remount/balance the tires.

I'll update the results, and if anyone else has an idea, chime in.
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Mine does it too!!

Please let us know what fixes it. I think a lot of them do this.
Dan
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