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Location: Los Angeles, CA Gender: Male Total Likes: 73 likes
| | | Re: Broken Tire Rod? < Reply # 1 on 7/5/2009 7:09 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Probably not a broken tie rod, could be worn idler arm bushings, draglink, unbalanced tire w/ poor shocks. Best bet is to jack it up and have a look, lift up both front tires off the ground, then shake or jiggle each one, there should be no sloppiness, and they both should do the exact same thing as you steer them back and forth from outside the car. That's the extent of my knowledge, see Sam, Bandi, Tracker, Alein, Bustedknuckle, Nismo. They'll be able to help.
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| Samurai Vehicular Lord Rick
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| | | Re: Broken Tire Rod? < Reply # 4 on 7/5/2009 10:32 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | rule of thumb is to check the lugnuts first. If you jack the car up and they are loose, well, duh. Now if the nuts are tight (ah hah!), take a grip at the 3 and 9 oclock positions on the tire and see if you can wiggle the thing back and forth. There will be *some* play, but not a significant amount. If there is a pretty good amount of play your looking at either a wheel bearing, tie rod or tie rod end. Usually, the end wears before the rod. On some cars, like 2nd Gen Cavaliers, the tie rods are non wear items. Now, we get past that, take a grip at the 12 and 6 oclock position and give a wiggle... significant play almost always mean ball joint. t
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| Bustedknuckle
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| | | | Re: Broken Tire Rod? < Reply # 6 on 7/6/2009 1:15 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Samurai rule of thumb is to check the lugnuts first. If you jack the car up and they are loose, well, duh. Now if the nuts are tight (ah hah!), take a grip at the 3 and 9 oclock positions on the tire and see if you can wiggle the thing back and forth. There will be *some* play, but not a significant amount. If there is a pretty good amount of play your looking at either a wheel bearing, tie rod or tie rod end. Usually, the end wears before the rod. On some cars, like 2nd Gen Cavaliers, the tie rods are non wear items. Now, we get past that, take a grip at the 12 and 6 oclock position and give a wiggle... significant play almost always mean ball joint. t
| Yup *edit More times than not though Ive seen a car come in with the symptoms you spoke of and it be nothing more than a tire out of balance.
[last edit 7/6/2009 1:19 AM by Bustedknuckle - edited 1 times]
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