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Both my '90 and my '91 pull to the right. I have to gently tug on the wheel and hold it a few degrees of rotation to the left to keep the car to going straight ahead.
The '90 is getting BAD. Let go of the wheel and it will veer off the road in a hurry. The wierd thing is that it is not always the same. Some days something seems to shift, and it is not so bad.
Rack seems tight, ball joints seem tight, strut top bearings seem tight, front control arm bushings seem good, tires are all matching Michelins.
Both cars have good rear bushings, and rear axles seem aligned with the car to the best of my ability to measure.
The '90 needs inner tie rod ends, I can feel motion through the boots, but the car doesn't wander appreciably.
The STRANGE thing is that the camber on the '90 is whacked, but in a way that SHOULD pull to the left! The driver's side wheel has way too much positive camber and the passenger side wheel is almost perfectly vertical. I wonder if the previous owner complained of the pull, and some alignment shop tried to compensate for it by tweeking the camber?
Do the valves in the power steering get loose or fail in a way that causes bricks to pull one direction?
I tried taking it to an alignment shop. He looked at the 225k mi on the odometer and wrote up a work order to replace the struts and every joint and bushing on the car, including the ones that are so new they are still shiny. He couldn't show me any perceptible wear in anything except the tie rod ends, but he insisted that the car needed $2500 worth of parts before he could align it.
Thanks for your suggestions!
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