NotMatt
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Wenatchee, WA
A little info first. '87 XJ, waggy d44's front and rear, RE brackets on the front axle, 5.13's spooled rear lockright front, clayton longarms with 5.5" springs up front and RE 4.5" springs out back (really about 6" right now, ha).
Alright... seems like forever my rig has been pulling to the right. It did it with the D30 in it and stock XJ steering, and it still does it with the D44 and stock wagoneer steering. It wears the front left tire something fierce if I don't keep them rotated. It's been doing this for quite a while... but I can't pinpoint when it first started.
Anyway, I had it aligned when it still had the D30 in it. Toe was set at 0 and steering wheel was centered. This was with the stock XJ steering and D30. So, I figured maybe one of my stock control arms was bent, (and they indeed were very tweaked) since it did not go away with a complete change of the steering and a driveway toe adjustment. Toe is still at pretty much 0, it handles very good other than this issue.
Finally changed out all the control arms for the Clayton kit, the crossmember is centered and sets of lowers and uppers are set at the same length, my mounts and straight and true on my housing, and the axle is centered under the rig, toe is still set at 0, steering wheel centered, and it still pulls to the right driving down the road.
Could this possibly be the power steering box? I've exhausted most of the other ideas, and someone I know suggested this as a possibility... they had a bad power steering box in some rig that had a leaky seal or something and caused the rig to constantly pull to the left. I'm not familiar with the innards of the XJ power steering box, so I can't visualize what would cause that inside, but maybe some of you guys who've had it apart could shed some light? It's not too big of an issue as I don't drive the rig daily anymore, but it's kind of annoying on long trips and I really want to tack down any tire wear issues now that I have the Iroks on.
If the power steering box is not the culprit, any ideas what else could cause this? My only other idea would be the rear axle being off center causing the rig to crab walk, but I've checked and double checked the measurements back there and it's all good. I plan on rebuilding the box soon anyway and tapping for Hydro assist, but it's not on my immediate list of stuff to do... unless somone could verify that this could possibly be the culprit.
Any ideas?
Alright... seems like forever my rig has been pulling to the right. It did it with the D30 in it and stock XJ steering, and it still does it with the D44 and stock wagoneer steering. It wears the front left tire something fierce if I don't keep them rotated. It's been doing this for quite a while... but I can't pinpoint when it first started.
Anyway, I had it aligned when it still had the D30 in it. Toe was set at 0 and steering wheel was centered. This was with the stock XJ steering and D30. So, I figured maybe one of my stock control arms was bent, (and they indeed were very tweaked) since it did not go away with a complete change of the steering and a driveway toe adjustment. Toe is still at pretty much 0, it handles very good other than this issue.
Finally changed out all the control arms for the Clayton kit, the crossmember is centered and sets of lowers and uppers are set at the same length, my mounts and straight and true on my housing, and the axle is centered under the rig, toe is still set at 0, steering wheel centered, and it still pulls to the right driving down the road.
Could this possibly be the power steering box? I've exhausted most of the other ideas, and someone I know suggested this as a possibility... they had a bad power steering box in some rig that had a leaky seal or something and caused the rig to constantly pull to the left. I'm not familiar with the innards of the XJ power steering box, so I can't visualize what would cause that inside, but maybe some of you guys who've had it apart could shed some light? It's not too big of an issue as I don't drive the rig daily anymore, but it's kind of annoying on long trips and I really want to tack down any tire wear issues now that I have the Iroks on.
If the power steering box is not the culprit, any ideas what else could cause this? My only other idea would be the rear axle being off center causing the rig to crab walk, but I've checked and double checked the measurements back there and it's all good. I plan on rebuilding the box soon anyway and tapping for Hydro assist, but it's not on my immediate list of stuff to do... unless somone could verify that this could possibly be the culprit.
Any ideas?