ke98248

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2 nights ago I noticed that when my steering wheel was perfectly center, my front passenger wheel was turn slightly to the right, while the front driver's side wheel was exactly straight. This concerned me, so last night I jacked up my car and found that the lower balljoint (I think) is torqued to the right . However, the middle and top portion are perfectly linear, so I'm not quite sure what could have happened.

I'm not sure what the best way of fixing the problem is, any suggestions?


The closest I could find is that I'm talking about #3 on the picture:

MugenHonda

Are you sure it's not an outer or inner tie rod end
A ball joint only goes bad when it is loose meaning with the car jacked up, move the wheel from left to right and check for looseness
It it moves that way, possible upper or lower ball joint or outer or inner tie rod end.
If the wheel moves loose up or down, it is a bad wheel bearing

1sick4dr.

jack the car up by the suspension that way its got tension on the ball joints (not by the body) and jack the tire off the ground about 3 inches and stick a pry bar under the tire and pull up if it moves then its ball joint, then wiggle side to side if that moves inner tie rods or wheel bearing, i align cars for a local tire shop.

ke98248

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No, It's not the ball-joint, I got things mixed up. I looked it up in my Helms manual and it's this specialized bolt thing that connected from the stabilizer bar to the front lower control arm. You can see that the bottom is all tweaked out to the right

here's a picture from my cell:

ke98248

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B18C5-EH2

If only one of those swaybar end links looks torqued, and that same side also has a wheel that looks pushed back or turned slightly then you might have a bent lower control arm.

I say take the car to have an alignment done and see if while they're trying to align it they run into any issues such as bent components, etc.

You will need to tell them to specifically look while the car is up though.

ke98248

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Hmm, sounds logical, although I looked myself and didn't see anything strange besides that; However I'm not an expert.

ke98248

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Oh, and a loooong time ago I was messing around with that piece, either loosening or tightening it, and it bent funky like that. My wheel wasn't ever like that though..

philosofy1

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like B18C5-EH2 said, take it to a shop, that is the best way you can get a accurate description of what is going on. make sure you take it to a well known respectable alignment shop and not no tire kindom, goodyear, etc.

ke98248

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Going to go to Les Schwab.