Steering issues please help
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Steering issues please help
Pulled into a narrow entrance to a dirt parking lot one night and drove my passenger side wheel into a 3’ deep culvert almost ripping my bumper off. Pulled the rest of the way in and noticed that my steering wheel was now upside down. Truck also started constant pulling to the right while driving to the point my wrist gets sore from holding constant pressure on the steering wheel all the time.. Got the truck home and took it to a tire shop to get an alignment done and fix my steering wheel position. They set toe, straightened the steering wheel and told me that my front passenger wheel had significant negative camber.. like -1.29 or something I can’t remember but also told me that it isn’t fixable without a $180 “camber kit” which is fine but with that amount of negative camber my truck should be pulling to the left instead of the right so I’m afraid that something else was damaged but I’ve looked underneath of my truck countless times since and I can’t find anything obviously damaged.. (neither did the tire shop technician) so I need some advice maybe on what else to inspect. Also my passenger side tire sticks out a few inches more than the driver side.
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I would seriously examine the drag link and track bar. They should be parallel with eachother, a slight bend will cause the wheel to go out of whack and shift the entire axle. The camber is unusual and hard to say if its accident related or was just out to begin with. Id imagine it would be very difficult to bend that knuckle.
A good saying to remember with alignments is camber high, caster low. Thats the way the car will go.. in relation to ur pulling.
A good saying to remember with alignments is camber high, caster low. Thats the way the car will go.. in relation to ur pulling.
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