carcious

So tonight I was driving and my steering wheel began to vibrate, and the vibrations became a strong pull to the left.

The car is only pulling to the left so I'm pretty sure it's not rack & pinion.

Any ideas of what it might be?

Oh and I drive an EG hatch with an LS..not sure if that helps...

EricRyan

Move your tires from front to rear, rear to front. If your problem goes away, you've got a bad tire my friend.

vanste

also might be alignment issue too?

kp

It probably isn't tire pressure because it started so suddenly, but I've seen worse caused simply by low tire pressure.

Jaz760

yeah rotate your tires, and check pressure in them. if that doesnt work, then you need an alignment

seadonkeyraypiss

Is it a hard "jerk" to the left? If so, it could be one of your axles.

joelmatt89

that doesn't seem like it could be from tire wear or pressure. If the alignment suddenly got that bad you would have had to hit something very noticeable I am assuming since you didn't mention that you probably didn't. Have you tried jacking up the car and putting it in gear with the engine running. From my experience that can really help you narrow down the problem. Don't just guess it's bad alignment because if it's not and then you have to replace something you pretty much just threw 80 bucks out the window. You can easily measure if your alignment is off. Just set up two strings running along either side of the car then make sure they are parallel, then turn the wheel so on the of the wheels is perfectly parallel with the string and measure your other wheel, it should be parallel as well. The kind of problem your talking about would be at least 1/4"

carcious

Looks like it might be my steering rack bushings. This sucks, no one here has any in stock. I gotta order from Honda -___-

EricRyan

Is your p/s rack moving around down there when you turn the steering wheel or something?

cashkeith

the belt in your tire could of went

IhateworkingoncaRs

As a former alignment technician, your post is quite interesting. Unless I'm reading it wrong, I believe you are suggesting to measure the toe angle, alignment pulls are caused from camber and caster angles(not so much caster for front wheel drive vehicles).

BuiltCivic99

man if you hit something...anything remotely hard you bent your control arm...i did this while doing donuts in the snow in a $15,000 yes i kno it was dumb : ) but its a bent control arm if u did.

carcious

YES! I took a look at it today, from the engine bay, and when I turn the wheel I see the rack moving back and forth. I no longer have power steering, but I'm pretty sure it still isn't supposed to be doing that.

Oh and no I didn't hit anything.

turry89si

I have the same problem with the pull, only its been doing it for some time i guess, and i was told by my dad i need to pretty much replace the front end completely. i think my car was hit before, but anyway, when driving, if you let go of the wheel, you will instantly go 75 degrees to the left, but it takes no strength to keep steady.

sp00ledbseries

turry89si

yea i thought of that, cause my moms car had the same deal about a week ago, just no where as bad as this, but he insists its not that, ill run it by him again

carcious

So today I finally got it diagnosed.

And I have a few problems,
first the bushings on my steering rack are toooooast.
second, both my axles are broken.
So time to find some axles -_-

thanks to everyone who helped out and gave their two-cents.