Done a serach nothing to suit my criteria, anyway.

yesterday morning the lude hit a curb front left wheel turning right at about 15mph maybe not even that. The steering is out of wack, and defeinetly out of alignment.

The wheels arnt' wobbling at 60mph (on highway) which is a good thing i guess. but soemthing is out of place. my steering wheel is turned about about 1/8th from teh ceenter so when driving straight the steering wheel is actually on an angle as if im turning left.
I've just had a look under neath, the position of the sway bar has moved about 1mm, to the right from wehre it usualyl sits on the two mounts.

what damage should i look at, if any.


Modified by vtk94lude at 4:18 PM 11/24/2003

 

probably busted your tie rod to hell.. u have severe toe, or caster?

 

heres the top of the strut, as u can see the ball joint from the upper control arm hit the top. nothing major just a lil dint.



compared to my other side, this thing is poping out about 2mm.

yes the wheel has more toe/caster i think, its in alittle bit more than usual. so where is my tie rod?





Modified by vtk94lude at 4:02 PM 11/24/2003

 

The tire rod is on the inside of the wheel. It pulls and pushes the tire either in or out. You have 2 for each tire, inner tire rod and an outer tire rod. I had someone else replace my tire rods in my legend and it was $600.

btw that dent looks pretty nasty...

 

if i were u i would find someone with a parts car and grab the entire side... probably wouldnt be too much.. yea u wacked the hell out of it for sure

 

that dent on the top of the strut tower doesn't look fresh. meaning, has your car been bottoming out?

lots of hondas/acuras experience this with blown suspensions.

by the pics you need a new upper ball joint. i repeat do not drive your car until you get it fixed. it looks as though it's on the verge of collapsing.

you probably have more suspension damage elsewhere on the same side. probably one or two arms slightly bent. you'll need to get an alignment afterwards to see exactly where as it may not be visible to the eye.

 

ye cars been bottoming out before but the car was sitting 1.5inch from the ground for couple days, now i've raised it 1 inch, so the fender is sitting above the tyre this time, givin it plenty of clearance, and it doesn't bottom out no more.

Going to get my mate to check it out, his a mecahnic so he'll hopefully identify if any parts are damaged.


I will go out later and messure my knucles in height, on both sides see if the left was bent.