Car pulls hard left,alignment shop says its a bent spindle, shop telling the truth?

[Mugen13]

I went off the road bent my inner tie rod, my LCA and so i replaced those and the ball joint, but now my car pulls HARDto the left.

I took it to a alignment shop and they said its b/c my spindle is bent, but they said you can't tell visually from looking that its bent.

Are they telling the truth? Is there something else that could be causing the car to pull?

[97DubTruck]

Yes your spindle may be bent enough for that to happen without being able to visually see the warp. Did they actually give you alignment afterwards or look at it and tell you they couldnt do it?

[thx247]

Could be bent. Its very hard to visually see a bend in suspension components sometimes. You could try to measure between various points on the suspension and compare the "damaged" side to the other side of the car and see if you notice any disparities.

Other than that, you could try another alignment shop, preferably a shop with a racing oriented cliental, I've found their expertise is more than worth the increased costs when your trying to diagnose a suspension problem.

[wootwoot]

i'd have another alignment shop check it out and only tell them it pulls hard to the left, see what they say. if they say the same thing then replace it, if they dont go to a 3rd shop...hah

[andrave]

yeah take it to a second shop, if it needs replaced its like 25 bucks, so its no biggie.

[Mugen13]

where can you get a steering knuckle(spindle) for $25?!?!

if you know, please post the info here. BTW, i have a ABS S14 SE

[97DubTruck]

junkyard is the best place. s13's are a dime a dozen and usually stuff like the spindle is left on them.

[andrave]

I know where you can get a pair for 50 shipped off a hicas car right now... and you would get the marginally bigger abs brakes.

[Mugen13]

i went to another alignment shop and they were able to fix everything except my caster which was right within the specs.

but my rear camber is really bad on STOCK supsension except i have subframe spacers. the camber on my right is still -2.2 which isn't as bad as the -3.4 i had earlier.

anyone know why my rear camber is so negative on one side? b/c the other side is fine

[ghostuss]

RUCA? :coolugh:

[thx247]

Its not cambered for road crown?