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Steering Problems
« on: Aug 10, 2003, 03:48PM »
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My car seams a little heavy when turning, do you guys know what could be causing this, or if there are grease nipples on the car ?

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Re:Steering Problems
« Reply #1 on: Aug 10, 2003, 07:05PM »
have you checked powersteering fluid? steering rack? balljoints?...i'm not sure about grease nipples ??? sometimes even just shit tyres make the steering feel heavy  :o
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Re:Steering Problems
« Reply #2 on: Aug 10, 2003, 07:21PM »
Checked your tyre pressure latley?
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Re:Steering Problems
« Reply #3 on: Aug 10, 2003, 10:00PM »
The car dose not have power steering & my pinny only has 14" tyres... there said to have a max pressure of 32, last time i checked (2 weeks) they were spot on.
 
As far as checking other things, so far no i havent, i simply have not hard enough time yet :)

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Re:Steering Problems
« Reply #4 on: Aug 11, 2003, 12:01AM »
my sons 86 corolla doesn't have powersteering & is very heavy to steer for a small car :)
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Re:Steering Problems
« Reply #5 on: Aug 11, 2003, 06:31PM »
this happened to my old mans pintara turns out it was a "bushing?"

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Re:Steering Problems
« Reply #6 on: Aug 12, 2003, 02:05PM »
for an EVEN SMALLER car, my dad's Festiva has heavier steering than our old Bluebird... I think it's a trait with front wheel drives & torque steer.
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Re: Steering Problems
« Reply #7 on: Apr 25, 2004, 09:41PM »
You could pump tyres up higher e.g 35 this made the sigma's steering slightly more bearable.
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Re: Steering Problems
« Reply #8 on: Apr 25, 2004, 10:23PM »
i would neva pump the tyres up to maximum pressure that the tyre says. It increases tyre wear and makes the car so much harder to turn. My rears are set at around 45 (max is 51).

neva go over the max pressure cause ur asking for it to blow out

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Re: Steering Problems
« Reply #9 on: Apr 25, 2004, 11:10PM »
It's better then it was and im keeping to norm temps now.  The steering in general needs a good bloody overhall witch aint all that bad cause when i finally get it on the road ill have and excuse to get the zorst and the shockies done ;) Shocks are horrid at the moment & ill be replacing the springs with King lows. Might have to get a few brushes done too but once that and the zorst is done the car should be completly fine for quite a few years. Im gona see if i can get an old friend to help me out with most of it, we wernt the best of friends but we got on quite well tougther and i know he loves cars so ;) well see what happens there. Still a while to go before that happens however.

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Re: Steering Problems
« Reply #10 on: Apr 26, 2004, 08:16PM »
itl prob be ya bushes, another r31 trait
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