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Steering pulls on freeway

Old Jan 23, 2014 | 04:06 PM
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Steering pulls on freeway

I have a 81 Toyota pickup with a 5" Skyjacker lift with the drop draglink. Ever since I put the lift kit on it pulls really hard to one side or the other on the freeway, especially when switching lanes, but it is fine around town at speeds bellow 50mph. I sent the truck off to my front end guy where he adjusted the draglink and other steering components, and he also put on a dual skyjacker steering damper kit. I've heard a lot of talk about hysteer. would putting hysteer on my truck fix this problem or is there something else I can do. I drive this truck everywhere and ever since I put the lift on I don't feel safe driving on the freeway.
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Old Jan 24, 2014 | 09:20 AM
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Everything tight? You put on bigger tires at the same time too? Reconnect the traction bar? Alignment good? Mine was kind of similar until I aligned my truck right, believe I had a bunch of toe in. I have a lift with the push pull and don't pull on the highway.
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Old Jan 24, 2014 | 09:35 AM
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Originally Posted by ConSeann3ry
Everything tight? You put on bigger tires at the same time too? Reconnect the traction bar? Alignment good? Mine was kind of similar until I aligned my truck right, believe I had a bunch of toe in. I have a lift with the push pull and don't pull on the highway.
It has the same tires on it as it did before the lift. The track bar got reconnected. I had the best guy I know who specializes in alignments and I had him spend a whole day on it.
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Old Jan 24, 2014 | 09:38 AM
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It has the same tires on it as it did before the lift. The track bar got reconnected. I had the best guy I know who specializes in alignments and I had him spend a whole day on it.
I also put different shims on to adjust the caster
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Old Apr 13, 2014 | 07:22 AM
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try swapping the tires

fyiw the x-over steering was a very easy conversion the steering is much more responsive and i get no bump steer
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