Steering Wheel Overcomes Driver on Highspeed Corner
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Steering Wheel Overcomes Driver on Highspeed Corner
Do any of you guys have this wrong with your truck? If I take a corner and high speed the steering wheel becomes hard to hold like its trying to jerk itself back straight like it has a mind of its own. If you pull on it harder it gets really easy. If your sitting completly still and turn the wheel all the way one way or another, then let go the steering wheel will pulse and mover left to right by itself. Not alot but if you held your hand on top it would be from prolly 12 o clock to 11 and back to 12. Sometimes when sitting still you can't even turn the wheel, but that is the nature of a superduty
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How fast is a high speed to you? I have took a few sharp curves at 65+ mph and it was hard to turn the wheel(but if I had turned it much sharper I wouldn't have stayed on all four wheels). So maybe it is a good thing
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edit: I reread your post, I didn't catch all of it the first time. I had an older truck do everything described, pulsing steering wheel, hard to turn wheels sitting still, and it made a "whinning" noise when you turned the wheel. I was out of powersteering fluid.
Be safe,
Tim
.edit: I reread your post, I didn't catch all of it the first time. I had an older truck do everything described, pulsing steering wheel, hard to turn wheels sitting still, and it made a "whinning" noise when you turned the wheel. I was out of powersteering fluid.
Be safe,
Tim
Last edited by thorseshoeing; May 19, 2005 at 05:40 AM.
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I am not sure what you mean by your steering wheel jiggle but I found a staight axle front end has different handling characteristics than IFS and when I got my 2000 F350 I was still used to the IFS on my 95 F250. I was doing about 75 MPH on a single lane highway that had a high centre crown . As I pulled out to pass on this type of road, for a split second your driver's side front tire will almost lift off the road and you get a weird feeling on the steering wheel. It scares the crap out of you the first time it happens. You don't get this with IFS because the front tires stay planted.
Now I try to remember I am driving a truck , not a sports car.
Now I try to remember I am driving a truck , not a sports car.
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I think its what crash is talking about, cause there is def. something wrong but doesn't do it all the time. I bet its the pump or valve. Is the valve in the pump? Could the box be bad at all? I doubt it but its had play in the wheel since it was brand new, more that it seems like it should
