My steering wheel is a little off-center when going straight. If I dont pull it slightly to the left (about 10 degrees), the truck will vear to the right. I went and got an alignment hoping it would fix the issue, but it didn't. The truck still wants to go to the right, and I still have to pull on the wheel to keep it straight.
Here's the alignment report-
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From what I can tell, the camber and caster didn't change at all, and the toe only changed to the lowest end of the acceptable range.
The guy at Mavis told me that there's not much adjustment they could do in a vehicle this old (and that there's no caster adjustment possible period), unless I rebuilt something or other.
To be honest, I'm not really that surprised that the adjustment is limited, being how old the truck is (it's an '87 btw, not '86 like the report says), but I feel that he should've told me that BEFORE they did the work, not after.... but whatever.
So I have a few questions:
1. Is it true that caster cannot be adjusted on this truck?
2. Does it seem reasonable that camber was not possible to adjust on the left front wheel? Keep in mind that this truck did have a front end collision that was strong enough to destroy the tire...
3. Is the toe adjustment acceptable?
4. Should I even bother going back there and asking them to do better?
Assuming that the alignment is as good as it's going to get, and if that's case I think I'd be ok with it since the pull to the side is not that terrible, and I know it's an old truck..., I'd like to adjust the position of the steering wheel so at least it is trued when going straight.
To do this I plan to take of the wheel off (following the instructions on other threads here on the forum, thank you for that) and slightly rotating it on the splines so that when going down the road it looks straight, after compensating for the right pull.
When I do this, I'd like to lubricate the wheel so that this annoying squeaking noise that happens when I turn it goes away.
Second set of questions (sorry):
1. Where exactly should I be applying the lubricant? Between which two parts?
2. What is the best product to use? From some reading about this I think white grease is the way to go, but not really sure. What do you think?
Thanks everyone, I appreciate your advice.
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