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i took my r33 gts t for a drive tonight and it scared the crap out of me .every time i hit a small ridge in the road the car seemed to dive from one side of the road to the other actually pulled me into the next lane almost like driving on tramlines bloody scary .first time ive noticed it doing it it had me that worried that i drove it home at 20 kph .could it be a ball joint or tie rod end caster bushers ? anyone reccomend anyone in the northen suburbs of adelaide that might be able to check it out i really dont want to drive it till its fixed

cheers mid life crisis

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well i pulled the caster arms off today and altho they dont look the best i found the cause of the problem. the bottom ball joint nut was so frigging loose i could undo it with my hands thank god for split pins so a few drops of loctite done the sucker back up and a new split pin all is sweet again.still pulled the caster arms off and will replace the bushers any way . as for wheel alignment the car has 225 s on the front they are half worn very evenly across the tyre and the car had never wandered b4 the nut come loose on the ball joint .anyway just glad ive nutted it out pardon the pun

cheers midlife crisis

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well i pulled the caster arms off today and altho they dont look the best i found the cause of the problem. the bottom ball joint nut was so frigging loose i could undo it with my hands thank god for split pins so a few drops of loctite done the sucker back up and a new split pin all is sweet again.still pulled the caster arms off and will replace the bushers any way . as for wheel alignment the car has 225 s on the front they are half worn very evenly across the tyre and the car had never wandered b4 the nut come loose on the ball joint .anyway just glad ive nutted it out pardon the pun

cheers midlife crisis

I would even replace the ball joints if i were you, specially if they had come loose, was there any grease around the dust seals? I did all my front end bushes and ball joints the other week, wheel alignment, handles a thousand times better.

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Yeah Dean for a second ther i thought u had the same problems i did the other day.

While driving down to wisemans ferry and beyond i noticed that the rear or the car was tracing where my front wheels went,and,at high speeds this is not the greatest of feelings especialy when hitting off camber bumps in the road..they are the new kind of retread one that utilises the sidewall's lower bead as a joining point in the tire.Not the top layer of the belt itself.

The tyres that i had on were 17/45/235 front and 16/50/225 rear.

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