Hello,
I just bought my 1st 100 Series, a 2006 LX470 last week. I am in the process of baseline and cleaning it up. The dealer i bought the car said they just performed the alignment and showed me the service report on it. When i drove the car home the steering wheel was off center to the passenger side and a very slight driver side pull. I hooked it up to tech stream (1st time using it) last night to perform VGRS system calibration and now i have a centered steering wheel when driving straight but have unequal turns left to right (lock to lock). This issue may have been there already and i just now noticed it. I went under the car to look at the tie-rod ends and notice driver side has 5 threads showing and passenger has 2. What i think i need to do now is to mark the rod ends and move the rod ends to equal them (3.5 threads shown both side). Does this make sense or did i mess up doing the VGRS calibration?
AHC check up:
I did the low to high test and got 14 graduations. Sounds like my accumulators are good.
I measured all four corners: front left 19.25", rear left 20", front right 19", rear right 20.5"
This looks like i need to adjust for cross level. I am little confused with the above numbers i took. Should i adjust front right torsion bar to 19.25" then adjust sensors to get the front and rear ride heights to F19.5" and B20.5" and then move on to reading neutral pressure and adjusting them?
I took neutral pressure reading last night and after measuring and got some weird readings.
F 6.7
R2.7 (why so low??)
Accumulator 10.3
Steering angle -24.75 degrees
I was parked in fairly level garage with the wheels straight ahead. I read that if the steering angle is around 30 degrees the front will isolate side to side to control body roll. Is the steering angle messed up and causing my AHC to isolate the front side to side and cause my weird cross level?
I know i wrote a lot and am thankful for any help.
-Joshua
I just bought my 1st 100 Series, a 2006 LX470 last week. I am in the process of baseline and cleaning it up. The dealer i bought the car said they just performed the alignment and showed me the service report on it. When i drove the car home the steering wheel was off center to the passenger side and a very slight driver side pull. I hooked it up to tech stream (1st time using it) last night to perform VGRS system calibration and now i have a centered steering wheel when driving straight but have unequal turns left to right (lock to lock). This issue may have been there already and i just now noticed it. I went under the car to look at the tie-rod ends and notice driver side has 5 threads showing and passenger has 2. What i think i need to do now is to mark the rod ends and move the rod ends to equal them (3.5 threads shown both side). Does this make sense or did i mess up doing the VGRS calibration?
AHC check up:
I did the low to high test and got 14 graduations. Sounds like my accumulators are good.
I measured all four corners: front left 19.25", rear left 20", front right 19", rear right 20.5"
This looks like i need to adjust for cross level. I am little confused with the above numbers i took. Should i adjust front right torsion bar to 19.25" then adjust sensors to get the front and rear ride heights to F19.5" and B20.5" and then move on to reading neutral pressure and adjusting them?
I took neutral pressure reading last night and after measuring and got some weird readings.
F 6.7
R2.7 (why so low??)
Accumulator 10.3
Steering angle -24.75 degrees
I was parked in fairly level garage with the wheels straight ahead. I read that if the steering angle is around 30 degrees the front will isolate side to side to control body roll. Is the steering angle messed up and causing my AHC to isolate the front side to side and cause my weird cross level?
I know i wrote a lot and am thankful for any help.
-Joshua