Having finally gotten my car safetied and licensed, I am loving driving it.
To go it to pass safety, they needed to replace the steering gear box. It was in bad shape, so I was fine with that. Problem is that now the car drives straight (and centers itself) with the steering wheel turned about 45degrees clockwise. Which basically means that I can't see my guages, and it's really annoying.
They say that I need an alignment, which may be true, but it was perfectly straight when I took it in to them before they replaced the gearbox.
Is this something an alignment will fix, or is it more that I need to loosen the connection between the steering wheel and the gearbox, center the wheel and retighten it?
I don't want to get an alignment right now because I want to replace all my bushings, etc first. If I could fix the steering wheel a bit, I'd be real happy.
To go it to pass safety, they needed to replace the steering gear box. It was in bad shape, so I was fine with that. Problem is that now the car drives straight (and centers itself) with the steering wheel turned about 45degrees clockwise. Which basically means that I can't see my guages, and it's really annoying.
They say that I need an alignment, which may be true, but it was perfectly straight when I took it in to them before they replaced the gearbox.
Is this something an alignment will fix, or is it more that I need to loosen the connection between the steering wheel and the gearbox, center the wheel and retighten it?
I don't want to get an alignment right now because I want to replace all my bushings, etc first. If I could fix the steering wheel a bit, I'd be real happy.
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