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- From: stangler@wyvern.twuug.com (Tom Stangler)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Steering wheel angle
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.134513.19849@wyvern.twuug.com>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 13:45:13 GMT
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- Andrew Lavigne (alavigne@bmerh930.bnr.ca) wrote:
-
- : Anyone out there know if it is possible to have the steering wheel angle
- : changed without an alignment?? The car still tracks perfectly; it doesn't
- : pull off to the side.
-
- Yes they can be "off center". Roads have "crowns" on them, and sometimes to
- make the car go straight, you must turn the wheel a bit. Also, worn bushings
- could require you to take up the slack in the steering by cocking the wheel.
- I'd hate to think the steering rack is so worn that the gears
- "jumped" a tooth, or that the splines in the column did the same.
-
- Check for slop in the steering system.
-
- Tom..........stangler@wyvern.twuug.com
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