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danielcovaciu
| | Posted on Friday, January 31, 2003 - 02:18 pm: | 
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I've been trying to figure this out for a couple of months now. Last time I went wheelin I screwed up my alignment. I did take some pretty hard hits. On the way home I noticed that the car pulled slightly to the left. I have to keep the wheel a little to the right to go straight. It's been to two alignment shops and they had no idea. Bunch of monkeys!
I've checked all my suspension pieces. The trailing links are straight the track rod is good. Everything seems fine. What am I missing? Before that wheeling trip the steering was dead on.
Maybe the disco is more of an on-road car and wasnt really biult to take the rigors of off-road driving. If you guys dont help me figure this out then I'll keep the disco for in town and get a Jeep for off-road!
hehehehe |
Greg Davis (Gregdavis)
| | Posted on Friday, January 31, 2003 - 02:23 pm: |
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Other than toe-in, there's nothing to align. Perhaps your tie rod got tweaked. |
R. B. Bailey (Rover50987)
| | Posted on Friday, January 31, 2003 - 02:34 pm: |
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My brother has a 99 Cherokee Sport with factory suspention up-grade, sterio up-grade, etc... only 56k miles and he can't find anyone to buy it even when he offers it at Make Offer!
He is literally afraid to drive it - windows stop working over 55mph, brakes have been completely redone 4 times - still don't work right, no ABS, dash is falling off, instrument cluster periodically fails, water leaks are worse than a Rover, and even though there is nothing technically wrong with it, the engine sounds like it will blow-up at any moment. Other than that it LOOKS like a new car - it is pristine.
He might let you have it for $7k
http://landrover.mrbaileyshistory.net |
Jason T. Barker (Speedminded)
| | Posted on Friday, January 31, 2003 - 05:09 pm: |
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Yeah, I love the fan clutches in the Cherokees that make it sound like an airplane.
Disco's like to crawl, try it sometime...no need to rally race. Maybe if you go fast enough something else will hit it back into alignment? |
danielcovaciu
| | Posted on Monday, February 03, 2003 - 12:58 pm: |
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Jason, funny as it sounds I've seen that happen before. Driving back to Oregon from alaska in my dads Olds Bravada we hit a huge pothole at about 85mph. The alignment was WAY off. A few hundred miles down the road we hit another hole. Set the alignment back to dead on.
Maybe I'll just start running over big potholes and whatnot, hoping that my steering will go straight again.
R.B., I was just kidding about the Jeep. It will be a cold day in hell before I trade the Disco in for anything short of a G500 or an H1 Hummer.
Dan |
RJ Clayton (Tozovr)
| | Posted on Monday, February 03, 2003 - 01:12 pm: |
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When you wheel you need to understand that that bad things might happen. Alignment is no biggie...go to NTB and get it aligned with the free year warranty.
You might scratch or dent it too, if you wheel...all part of the game.
You wanna play like a sport? You have ta pay like a sport....
Or you could adjust the toe yourself...
Heh heh yeah, jeeps suck. |
Scott-OZ
| | Posted on Monday, February 03, 2003 - 07:09 pm: |
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G500? |
cartner
| | Posted on Monday, February 03, 2003 - 07:39 pm: |
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look in the yellow pages for a place with four wheel laser alignment, if that doesn't find center for you, you might have tweeked a bushing or something really small you just haven't found yet, or knocked the steering gear a bit more than outward appearances indicate. |
danielcovaciu
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 04, 2003 - 04:43 pm: |
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I was noticing this weekend that if I steer a little to the right and get the truck going in a straight line I can take my hand of the wheel and the truck will continue in that line. It dosent really try to self center the wheel and pull the truck left. Could it just be that my steering wheel go knocked off a notch. Is there any way to adjust the steering wheel?
Thanks to everyone who's e-mailed me or posted here on this.
Dan |
jerry
| | Posted on Saturday, February 08, 2003 - 11:43 pm: |
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I used to own a Jeep CJ-7 and i just stoped getting alignments. Every time I went offroad i messed up the allignment. The reason I bought my landrovers was reliability LOL belive it or not my rovers are mor reliable than my jeep was. |
Ram (Rsriprac)
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Registered: 02-2003
| | Posted on Monday, February 10, 2003 - 12:16 am: |
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G500? http://www.mercedesshop.com/g500.htm |
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