sticky steering

[will_95gt]

OK, this morning i hopped in the ol' stang to drive to school. I backed out of my drive way and made my way down the street. (When i backed out the car died, which sometimes happens when its really cold like this... especially in reverese.)

But anyways, i start goin down my street and when i take my first turn, i use my left hand to rotate the wheel and then release pressure off the steeering wheel, expecting it to glide under my hand counterclockwise back into its original position as i follow through with the turn. But... it didn't, the wheel just stayed into the turned position and sent my vehicle and its somewhat temporarily inadvertent driver (me) towards the curb.

Now, i'm not sure if its my brilliant half canadian heritage canada or my mad driving skills that allowed me to quickly reposition the wheel to the forward position but the point is, its been doing that all day with very little remorse.

So, what do you guys think?

 

[HISSIN50]

SO even when it warmed up, the steering did not want to return to center? How is the fluid level (I had to ask). It is gyroscopics, etc that make the wheel want to return to center.

 

[BlownFiveLiter]

How's your front suspension look? Have you made any changes to it recently (lowering springs, CC plates, etc) that may have caused it to be out of alignment, and have the steering not want to re-center? Just throwing ideas around here...

JT, you're just the big, intelligent word king lately. Gyroscopics? Man, some of the words you're using, I've never heard before! That at least isn't one of them... lol

 

[HISSIN50]

Matt, when I am very tired, I grunt-out short words and incomplete sentences. If I have gotten a little rest, I can think-of and write polysyllabic words.

 

[CManT1914]

Matt, when I am very tired, I grunt-out short words and incomplete sentences. If I have gotten a little rest, I can think-of and write polysyllabic words.

Okay JT, you had me going with gyroscopics, but now I think you're just making words up!!

 

[mo_dingo]

Okay JT, you had me going with gyroscopics, but now I think you're just making words up!!

Ahhhh come on, where is your latin/greek background....Figure it out....Prefix = poly = many. Syllabic = syllables. Thus...you figure it out.
Scott

 

[CManT1914]

Ahhhh come on, where is your latin/greek background....Figure it out....Prefix = poly = many. Syllabic = syllables. Thus...you figure it out.
Scott

HA!! I have a hard enough time with english. I have NO latin/greek familiarity. syllabic I knew, but not poly.

 

[will_95gt]

I havn't done anything to the front suspension lately, the last thing i did a couple weeks ago was that rear sway bar i was telling you guys about.

The power steering fluid is full, i checked that earlier, but just out of curiosity, what color is it supposed to be.

Its kind of a merky brown...gross lookin

 

[HISSIN50]

The PS fluid should be a lightish red (for me at least).

 

[BlownFiveLiter]

If I'm not mistaken, some cars actually use ATF for power steering. It should at least resemble ATF (light red, and clean), as I'm pretty sure they're very similar in properties. Might be time to change your PS fluid.

 

[will_95gt]

hopefully thats all i need to do; i'll try to do that today and get back atcha