I posted this in the 70 series thread, I'm trying to desperately address this:
Hello,
I'm having a drifting issue with my 77, it's leaf sprung in the front.
When I bought it pulled a bit to one side, then took it in for an alignment it drove straight.
I then had an issue and needed to replace a tie rod end, at this time I also swapped in the spare tire, I got it aligned, and it seemed to track fine at first and then that tire lost air, pumped it up, and it seemed to track ok, but has degraded quiet quickly. The drifting is bothering me. I took it to the shop today; they told me that according to the specs they've put in, it should be drifting right, but it still drifts to the left. And that because of this it must be a ball joint issue, or another replaceable part- this does not sound right to me because had it been this issue all along it never would have tracked straight before.
It's a 93 77, old man emu leaf springs and shocks heavy duty lift - new to me truck.
Tires are 255, 75, 16, with spacers. Tire pressure 35 psi.
I'm looking for help in figuring this out and figuring out what are the different components that would affect this drift, as I am not well versed in this.
- part of the problem here is that I don't know how the suspension/steering works very well and what affects what, the second part of the problem is the tire shop that has adjusted the crap out of the toe, but has essentially given up addressing the issue.
Hello,
I'm having a drifting issue with my 77, it's leaf sprung in the front.
When I bought it pulled a bit to one side, then took it in for an alignment it drove straight.
I then had an issue and needed to replace a tie rod end, at this time I also swapped in the spare tire, I got it aligned, and it seemed to track fine at first and then that tire lost air, pumped it up, and it seemed to track ok, but has degraded quiet quickly. The drifting is bothering me. I took it to the shop today; they told me that according to the specs they've put in, it should be drifting right, but it still drifts to the left. And that because of this it must be a ball joint issue, or another replaceable part- this does not sound right to me because had it been this issue all along it never would have tracked straight before.
It's a 93 77, old man emu leaf springs and shocks heavy duty lift - new to me truck.
Tires are 255, 75, 16, with spacers. Tire pressure 35 psi.
I'm looking for help in figuring this out and figuring out what are the different components that would affect this drift, as I am not well versed in this.
- part of the problem here is that I don't know how the suspension/steering works very well and what affects what, the second part of the problem is the tire shop that has adjusted the crap out of the toe, but has essentially given up addressing the issue.
