OK, let's look at what items WILL cause a pull to the right:
1) Low tire pressure on RF or RR
2) Misalignment on the front wheels, causing the steering to have to be corrected back to the left.
3) Dragging RF caliper
4) Dragging RR caliper
5) Bad / mal-adjusted wheel bearings on RF.
6) Bad / mal-adjusted wheel bearings on RR.
7) Track Bar bushings gone / broken / failed
If the pull only occurred during braking, then I would say it could be one side dragging OR the opposite side not working. Since it is pulling ALL the time, then it limits it to those items that are always in service.
Tires
Brakes
Wheel bearings
If you think your mechanic is a whiz-bang and got it right, then you have covered items 1, 2, 3, 4, 7.
The only things remaining are wheel bearings. Any competent mechanic should have figured it out before giving it back to you and just throwing parts at it. Did he not test-drive it after doing the brakes?
Gotta go through the problem solving / troubleshooting tree here.
Identify the problem
Possible causes of the problem
Possible solutions
Start at the simplest, no-cost solutions
Then next level of inspection
Then throw money at it until you have a new tru
OK, let's look at what items WILL cause a pull to the right:
1) Low tire pressure on RF or RR
2) Misalignment on the front wheels, causing the steering to have to be corrected back to the left.
3) Dragging RF caliper
4) Dragging RR caliper
5) Bad / mal-adjusted wheel bearings on RF.
6) Bad / mal-adjusted wheel bearings on RR.
7) Track Bar bushings gone / broken / failed
If the pull only occurred during braking, then I would say it could be one side dragging OR the opposite side not working. Since it is pulling ALL the time, then it limits it to those items that are always in service.
Tires
Brakes
Wheel bearings
If you think your mechanic is a whiz-bang and got it right, then you have covered items 1, 2, 3, 4, 7.
The only things remaining are wheel bearings. Any competent mechanic should have figured it out before giving it back to you and just throwing parts at it. Did he not test-drive it after doing the brakes?
Gotta go through the problem solving / troubleshooting tree here.
Identify the problem
Possible causes of the problem
Possible solutions
Start at the simplest, no-cost solutions
Then next level of inspection
Then throw money at it until you have a new truck.
Thanks man! I’ll throw it up tomorrow and check how the wheels spin. If they feel good....
I guess I’ll start with bushings. Thanks. Just hoping it wasn’t going to be steering pumps or stuff like that.