How to Straighten a Misaligned Steering Wheel
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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2024
- I show how to adjust the tie rods on a Honda Civic to straighten the steering wheel so the car moves in a straight line when the steering wheel is straight. This process applies to any make or model of a car that uses tie rods, however depending on how the tie rod connects to the axel and in which direction the car moves when the steering wheel is straight, the process will differ accordingly.
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Whenever I did wheel alignment in tire shop, I always adjusted tie rod by myself. because steering wheel slightly not aligned. the shop should be shame themselves! this is the best video I've ever seen in youtube. no stupid music, very straight forward explanation.
I strongly suggest marking default position with a sharpie or something before starting to adjust, that way if you mess up somehow you can always go back to position where you started.
One of the best videos that dealt with the mist important aspects of this task: orientations of the tires with crooked and centered steering wheel, and the effects of shortening or lengthening the tire rod on the toe.
Because the outer rod is connected to the spindle behind the shaft, shortening the driver side rod, for example, creates a resultant force the pulls the rear aspect of that wheel inwards and the front aspect of same wheel outwards (toe in).
Lengthening produces opposite effects.
So which wheel to toe in or out is determined by taking the baseline of the imagined position of the tires after manually centering the steering wheel.
This is the way I understand it.
Thanks for posting this. I did it yesterday to a Civic, worked great.
Beautifully explained brother, got it into my head. Thank you 🙏
Good helpful video clearly explained. i think if you have the steering wheel severely off centre it may need to be removed and aligned again but for slightly off centre this would be fine. be sure to have the wheels aligned first before adjusting track rods 😊
Nice logical explanation!!!! It's one of the smarter videos I have watched.
Thanks, simple explanation that helped me considerably.
Awesome video, subbed. Helped me lots thank you!
I need to do this to my crv same problem! Nice video sur
Excellent video!
Fixed my issue just great. Ty
Great info thanks my brother
Thanks I just did mine today but I have problems one of them but I manage to turn it at the end
Had my front wheel bearing done on my van then the wheel alignment was out. For some reason. I’ve had three alignments now on a hunter alignment system steering wheel still not straight was okay before I had the wheel bearings done any pointers 😂
thank you!
Thanks!
I got a 2005 Honda Accord and when I'm driving straight my wheel is tilted a lot to the right side (passenger side) so which way do I adjust ?? Thanks
shorten the passenger side (screw in) and extend the driver sider (screw out). do 1/4 of turn on each side and test drive.
@@laurentl2275 depends where the rods are attached
So where is the final video of you driving down the road with a nice straight steering wheel?
Yay Honda Fit!
I think this would work if it is slightly misaligned and you need to do slight adjustments here or there to get it back to normal. I remember my old civic I really messed up my right front wheel once. Then, I took it in the shop for something and they also did an alignment for me, they said, they did the best they could. But it really F'up! So, my wheel steering would always look like it more to the left then straight to drive straight? I guessing that's what they are calling "Bent"?
if you have the steering wheel severely off centre it may need to be removed and aligned again but for slightly off centre this would be fine
I have the same problem after my alignment. So the driver side you turn the tie rod counter clockwise to shorten? and the passenger side clockwise to make it larger? Same amount of turns apply to both sides correct?
Both wheels could have a different number of turns. Your situation may be completely different from the video as far as which tie rod goes which direction. If an alignment shop did your alignment and it is still not correct, have them fix it!
ive paid two places to align the steering wheel and both places failed. I am now going to go back to the second place to make them align it properly
Edit: if I place the steering wheel straight it drifts off to the right. only takes a few meters to end up in a different lane if I do so
It will steal affect your alignment
Bent??? Next.
Btw, the theory is sound, but at one point you said that the front wheels are supposed to be parallel?! Because they are NOT supposed to be parallel AT ALL. Just saying ...
This man is using crescent wrenches y'all. 😢😅
It worked did it not
@@descendinggod9740doesn't matter. Always use the right tool for the job or don't do it.
@@briangray426 you say it doesnt matter but it got the job done, what difference did it make
@@descendinggod9740 I said... it doesn't matter. He should have used the right damn tool for the job.
@@briangray426 Your right it doesnt matter what tool you use for the job, as long as the job gets done. Which he did. So congrats on him
This gives more accurate reading for toe adjustment and are easyer done : czcams.com/video/bdJiOCzYdgw/video.html
Can you just buy new tie rods?🤣 asking for a friend
Even with new rods you’d still have to adjust them.
That should say "Misaligned". Bent would imply something different.
Just updated the title. Thanks
A bent steering wheel? You need to replace a bent steering wheel. However, you can straighten an off center or misalignment steering wheel.
just get an alignment....
😂 alignment won’t fix his issue he is spot on with what he is doing
Fixed my issue just great. Ty