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I have a late 88 HJ61 with a slight steering problem. Nothing has changed with the way the car steers, i.e. responsiveness, the car is not pulling left or right, no vibrations, doesn't take effort to hold it in a straight line. However i have this problem:
- The steering wheel has rotated approximately 45 degrees in an anticlockwise direction to its usual position when driving straight ahead.
If you don't understand that last bit...the steering wheel use to sit horizontal when you were driving straight ahead...now it sits about 45 degrees anticlockwise of horizontal when driving straight ahead. Any ideas??
v840 wrote:
[Not a shot at Tonka] It's like saying, hell I've got two nuts, I may as well cut one of them off for the hell of it. I ain't using it.[/NAS@T] It's ridiculous!
it used to happen on my lux before i did X/over steer... all i did was undo the wheel line it back up and put it back on straight.
In the Commy i did the dount thin the other way as well
Used to happed to my 'luxes too, never figured it out. They always used to feel out of sorts on the way home from a trip.
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Prolly bent one of the links slightly - wouldn't take much to show as a steering wheel rotation due to the gearing reduction in the steering box. J arm in the hilux is the weak point in the steering and prone to bending over time if the rig sees a lot of offroad duty.
I had this happen to my 80 and it turned out that i had twisted the main shaft that comes outta the sterring box..
Not nice as it doesnt take much more to snap in then....h
well if you suspension lift your car, the drag link pulls the pitman arm to the passenger side (steering anti-clockwise) with respect to driving in a straight line. and depending on the angle of the draglink normally, it may take a small lift or a humungus lift to notice any difference.
