Why do my wheels do this?
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From: Austin, TX
The only bushings he'll have on his D50 is axle pivot bushings and leaf spring bushings. Only 2wd or D44 will have radius arms
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From: Plankinton, SD
The axle pivot bushing would do that wouldn't it? Somethings gotta be doing it, it wouldn't look like that backing it in on the car lot when new or nobody would buy it.
Am I the only one that thinks that is bad? Why doesn't mine do it at all?
Am I the only one that thinks that is bad? Why doesn't mine do it at all?
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From: Austin, TX
No, it shouldn't do it as bad as his is, but b/c of the design of the TTB, it's not out of the ordinary for it to do this. The pivot bushings being bad would definitely do it though. It only takes about 3 hours to change the bushings out to polyurethane..
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How much a truck is toed in will effect this... or this is the way I have always looked at it anyway. A truck that is toed in quite a bit will look more like this after backing up, than one with the front wheels parallel to each other. As a vehicle is backed up a more severe toe in will cause the part of the tire in contact with the ground to want to pull towards the outside of the truck, and since a tire is rubber and flexible the top of the tire will pull in as the bottom pulls out, especially if there is not a lot of air in the tire. The actual wheel is much more straight up and down than it appears. Like I said, this is just something that I've always thought added to this appearance. The other things already mentioned actually do effect how the wheel actually sits under the truck.
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From: metairie, LA
mine did it for a while, replacing the radius arm bushing fixed it. i replaced the the front end the other day, my pivot bushings were so bad, the bolt wore through into the i beam
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Cargo Master
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From: College Station, TX
Yeah my pivot bushing could definitely use a change. All my front spring and shackle bushings got swapped to poly when I did my shocks, ball joints, and tie rods not long ago. I just really never rememberedit being that bad in the past and thought it odd that only a bad pivot bushing would cause that much issue. Oh well.
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