couple suspension/tire questions. ooo pics

makaveli · Nov 4th, 2005, 05:45 AM

i have a couple suspension/tire/steering questions for y'all:
°i've been feeling like the steering on my b14 is "loose". its hard to describe, but it feels like i have to turn the steering whell way to far to the right to get the car to turn right. but its oppisite when i turn left, barley turn the wheel and it take a sharp quick turn. i belive it might have somthing to do with the ball joints, control arms, sway bar, or struts. the control arms are bent forward when the car is stopped and at rest(see pic)

passenger side

passenger side again

Driver side.
they look twisted to me, but what do you guys think?

°it might be the sway bar too..... bent also?

°could these dents cause problem in handling?

°is this what the rear beam is supposed to look like???

those oil marks on the rear shocks and axel is frm me loading them with wd40

well thanks for looking, i dunno let me know if somthing looks strange.

o ya 1 more... WTF is this from?

how about this(white marks on tires)?

and belive it of not i bought those tires about 3500 miles ago if not less

**wes** · Nov 4th, 2005, 10:23 AM

You need to take your car to a good alignment shop and have the alignment checked. Bent suspension components WILL throw off the alignment and they will show in the results!

makaveli · Nov 4th, 2005, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by wes

You need to take your car to a good alignment shop and have the alignment checked. Bent suspension components WILL throw off the alignment and they will show in the results!

see i got it aligned about 2 months, when i got 2 new front tires. that was before i really knew alot about these cars. they had told me that the toe and eather caster/camber(i dont remember) was way off. but they never said anything about not being able to align it.
o ya what do you think of those dents in the frame, they cant be good

nova73guy · Nov 8th, 2005, 05:48 PM

those dents shouldn't do anything to the handling. they're too far back to affect the suspension iirc. What WILL cause your car to handle the way you described is either bent suspension or bad tie rods, or worse a bad rack. Take it to a good, reputable body/chassis shop and have them check it. Toe isn't that much of a deal to adjust, but camber and caster are not adjustable from the factory on B14s.

makaveli · Nov 9th, 2005, 04:28 AM

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Originally Posted by nova73guy

those dents shouldn't do anything to the handling. they're too far back to affect the suspension iirc. What WILL cause your car to handle the way you described is either bent suspension or bad tie rods, or worse a bad rack. Take it to a good, reputable body/chassis shop and have them check it. Toe isn't that much of a deal to adjust, but camber and caster are not adjustable from the factory on B14s.

well actually i was gonna update this today, as i belive i have found a soultion. i replaced my front struts today(not enough light for the rear shocks) and it handels 10X better, tomorrow im doing shocks and well see what happens. BTW the tie rods do not look like that anymore, i think the struts were soo bad that it was putting excessive on the steering..... but i dunno