Funny Steering after Front End Work

[KmWebber]

Funny Stearing after Front End Work

I took my 99 2wd explorer into a shop that specializes in lifted trucks to get lower ball joints, outer tie rod end on passenger side (did other side myself a couple months ago) and alignment. they did all this, plus new cam bolts. And also lowered torsion bars about half an inch to even out w/ the back. Now, the steering wheel is angled to the left, and it jumps all over the road, like it doesnt know if it wants to pull to the left or right. It is also now having problems correcting itself after a turn. I'm sure they will fix it, but what could it be? Due to the torsion bars being let back down?

It has 3" lift spindles in the front, 3" add aleaf and shackles in rear. 1'' of TT was dropped to about .5" today.

THANKS

 

[carlover]

Get it re-aligned. I just replaced all my front suspension recently and was having the same problem that you are. Take it to a good aligment shop and even back to the original shop and have the aligment checked.

 

[timleedude]

As far as the Steering Wheel being tilted to the left, when the shop installed the front end stuff and did the alignment, they forgot to set the steering wheel straight also. They would need to straighten it for you.
As for the weirdness in the steering, it may be that you have air bubbles in the power steering system. There was another post here that had similar problems with it after repairs done to the front end and steering jumping all over the road. The solution he found was: while engine running, turn the steering from full left to full right and back and forth for maybe 20-40times. This would hopefully get rid of the Air Bubbles in the steering system.

-Tim

 

[james t]

Take it back, they obviously didnt align it. The walking all over the road could be anything... toe, caster, loose nut on a tie rod end, who knows.