Alright, I was Fu*kin around in the rain and slammed into a curb pretty bad in my beater 89 civic hatch. My axle bent, tire blew, rim destroyed and probably some other stuff, just not sure yet.

I put in a new axle and lower control arm and different rim/tire. The car still runs fucked up though. When I hold the steering wheel in the "straight forward" position the car swerves to the right and I have to turn the wheel and hold it in a certain position to go straight....

Any suggestions on what else I should replace?? Will an alignment help? This is just my beater car I don't need it going perfectly straight.
thanx

 

Sounds like it could be toe and or alignment

 

maybe you just put it together wrong

does the car drive normaly if you hold it in the wheel in the "fucked up" position? maybe all you did is align it the wrong way when you put the new stuff on??

 

you need an alignment. if that still doesn't fix it, was the tie rods replaced?

 

i did that a while back i had to replace all that stuff and the spindle the rack-n-pinion and the upper control arm. but your problem you might get away with an alignment but you probably bent the inner tie rod maybe even the outer.

 

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An alignment machine will help pinpoint your problem.....you probably need to replace the knuckle, too.