Is there a suspension specialist in the house?

[Corey]

Here's the deal. The front wheels of my car have a tendancy to jerk left and right for no particular reason sometimes like they are loose or something but when you put the car on a lift and pull on the wheels everything feels tight. WTF???

I have replaced the ball joints, gear box, idler arm, center link, wheel bearings, and struts. The tie rods still seem to be just fine. It has had alignment done many times and the alignment comes out fine but the car still does this and it is also wearing the hell out of my front tires. It also gets very tiresome to drive on a road that is not perfectly smooth because I constantly have to fight it to keep the car going straight.

I had someone tell me that the problem could possibly be the A-frame bushings. Does this sound like a possibility to anyone or should I just keep trying. Do yall have any ideas what it could possibly be? This is getting very frustrating.



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Corey
'88 T/A 305 TPI
#3 r.i.p. You will be missed :(

[YooperTA]

i had a similare problem. the car would want to pull to the right sometimes, mainly when i had to brake fast but then it would still do that for a while. My caliper was just stuck on the rotor enough to pull it to one side under normal driving. just a thought.
Matt

[Corey]

I thought about that but it doesn't have a preference to which direction it pulls. Sometimes it's left, sometimes it's right, doesn't seem to make a difference.

Thanks for the input though. Anyone else?

['67 327]

It's called bump steer, does it happen when your braking primarily? 1st gen camaro's have problems with bump steer. It could also be A-arm bushings deflecting. If they're rubber get polyurethane, shoulda done this when you did the ball joints and had it taken apart.

Like said could be brakes sticking too. Go to auto zone and get 2 little $1 packages of brake lube and try that. It could be alot of things hard to tell unless I'm there working on it. Since you had all this work done on the suspension it could be something not put back together right. Did it do this before you worked on it?

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[Corey]

This is basically the reason I started doing all of this supension work in the first place, so yes, it's been doing it for a long time. Not to mention that parts were just worn out anyway.

I know the brakes aren't sticking, but braking does intensify the effect of it. Like if I hit the slightest rut in the road that starts it pulling then I hit brakes the car pulls even harder that direction.

I just got some new Energy Suspension polyurethane a-arm bushings today. If it ever gets warm again I'll be putting them in. As far as I know the factory originals are still on the car. Thanks for your help.