DDCxj
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Natick, MA
okay so I'm driving down the road to the mountain to snowboard in NH. All of a sudden the steering wheel jerks and pulls horribly to the left so I slid across the road in the wrong lane and finally got it straightened out right before hitting the guardrail with the drivers side. Now, for the sake of argument, this was not caused by fishtailing, it was a steering problem.
I got out and checked for body damage, and saw nothing except for a little peice taken out of the alloy wheel. I hope back in the Jeep and start driving and my allignment is way off (steering wheel is to the right when I go straight). I got to the mountain a mile later and parked it after straightening the steering wheel. I got out and checked the front end and my drivers side wheel (the one impacted) is now pointing out while the passenger side is straight. I do not know if this is from the guardrail or the cause of the crash. All the steering linkages and tie rod ends and everything else was tight and connected.
Judging by the damage on the wheel, even though I steered it straight right before impact, the wheel was still cut a little to the right. From what I understand, its pretty hard to stretch frontend parts so the wheel sticks out (as if wheel is cut to the left) and like I said everything was tigh and connected. What do I check?
thanks
Dean
I got out and checked for body damage, and saw nothing except for a little peice taken out of the alloy wheel. I hope back in the Jeep and start driving and my allignment is way off (steering wheel is to the right when I go straight). I got to the mountain a mile later and parked it after straightening the steering wheel. I got out and checked the front end and my drivers side wheel (the one impacted) is now pointing out while the passenger side is straight. I do not know if this is from the guardrail or the cause of the crash. All the steering linkages and tie rod ends and everything else was tight and connected.
Judging by the damage on the wheel, even though I steered it straight right before impact, the wheel was still cut a little to the right. From what I understand, its pretty hard to stretch frontend parts so the wheel sticks out (as if wheel is cut to the left) and like I said everything was tigh and connected. What do I check?
thanks
Dean