Steering Problem

Stevestang56

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Jul 2, 2015
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Hey everyone please help. I have changed the control valve and all the lines and tried doing an alignment but the guy couldn't do it because the car was steering to the left on its own when the car is off and when the car is on he said it might be the steering box can that be true i don't want to change it and it ending up not being the right thing to change
 
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When the motor is not running it cant possibly be turning the steering . The valve is more than likely out of adjustment ,when it is running it will turn the wheels what ever direction the valve is adjusted to .

If the hoses are on the wrong ports on the valve or the ram the steering wheel will either shoot back and forth or slam the wheel one direction ,and can break an arm ...your arm .

If you did tie rods you may have them adjusted to one side instead of being centered so the steering box will not turn all the way one direction .
 
The hoses are all in the right ports. Well let's just say the car is off and I have the steering wheel straight and then I would to let it go the steering wheel turns a bit to the left. If the car would to be on and I let go of the steering wheel it goes to the left. For the valve adjustment is is located on the outside of the control valve
 
No it is in the inside .It is the part that has the pin in it ,if it is threaded to far one way that will cause it to steer to one direction when running .It adjust the pressure on either side of stud that attaches the valve to the pitman arm. If it isn't adjusted properly there will always be pressure on one side of the ball stud
 
Well I got the car aligned I had to hold the steering wheel for the guy while he did the alignment. S on the alignment is good but the steering wheel still fights to turn to the left. But I discovered another thing. When the car is at idle the steering wheel fights to the left. When I Rev the car is gets very smooth