Off Centre Steering
Submitted: Thursday, Jun 17, 2004 at 22:12
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Hiya all,
On a recent trip, my lovely missus drove into a deep washaway at aprox 60k an hour! We won't go there!
Since then, my beloved 78series Troopy has its a steering wheel off centre by about 5 degrees or so. It's also pulling mildly to the left. I took it in and got all the wheels aligned, but it's still pulling and off centre. The dude at the
shop said not to worry, that I may have bent something, but it was on big deal.The tyres only have about 5,000k's left and he said to worry about it then.
He said the only way to fix the steering wheel was to physically take it off and realign it.
Should I truck on happily, or should I find the problem now? Thought I'd get the wise words of the world. Thanks in advance.
Reply By: ChrisB - Friday, Jun 18, 2004 at 10:56
Friday, Jun 18, 2004 at 10:56
Had a similiar problem with my 100 series, but was only traveling at about 20kms/h when I hit an
embankment. Steering wheel pointing to about 1 o'clock.
Took it to get wheels aligned immediately and they said steering arm was ever so slightly bent but would not cause a problem.
Next service it was corrected by Toyota at the steering box and not the steering wheel because of the air bag and a finer adjustment could be made at the steering box end as even rotating the steering wheel one spline could have been to large an adjustment.
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Reply By: Member - Jeff M (WA) - Friday, Jun 18, 2004 at 11:19
Friday, Jun 18, 2004 at 11:19
From some experience on a number of vehicles I find that it's just too hard for most trye
places to bother to do the job properly as they are not charging enough money to spend even 30 mintues to find a problem.
There used to be a very good place I found that always made my truck point straight, howver he went out of business (hmmm, perhaps proves the above point) LOL
As mentioned in an above post, take it to a
suspension place and offer to pay them an hours labour or so to find and solve the problem once and for sure. If it ain't driving straight, somthing is wrong and me being a perfectionist could not handle it, it would give me the shts everytime I drove it.
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