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Pulling to the right - Not sure what to do

Discussion in '2nd Gen. Tacomas (2005-2015)' started by Mavz1212, Dec 14, 2015.

  1. Dec 14, 2015 at 7:21 AM
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    Mavz1212

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    After buying my used Tacoma at 78,XXX miles and finding a broken leaf spring I noticed it began to pull hard to the right. I've since replaced the leaf spring, gotten an alignment, and replacrd the front right wheel bearing. I'm not mechanically savvy, does anyone have any ideas as to what might be causing this?
     
  2. Dec 14, 2015 at 7:24 AM
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    I'll take a look at them, thanks man
     
  3. Dec 14, 2015 at 7:26 AM
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    Where did you have it aligned? There are alignment specialty shops where alignments are all they do.

    I suspect you might have a bad alignment.
     
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  4. Dec 14, 2015 at 7:27 AM
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    Just curious: did that cause a TPMS light?
     
  5. Dec 14, 2015 at 7:37 AM
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    Well, huh! Thanks for the info.
    OP, please excuse the diversion. We now return you to the original topic. :)
     
  6. Dec 14, 2015 at 7:44 AM
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    #1 Tire pressure
    #2 Alignment (however if you have crappy old wheel bearings and bad end links its pointless to do alignment)
    #3 End Links (check them by lifting each front wheel, grabbing at 9 oclock and 3 oclock and tryign to turn left/right feelign for any wiggle, you should need force to turn but it should be smooth, any wiggle means bad end link and that's your problem)
    #4 Bad wheel bearing (not tight enough)
    #5 One brake dragging
    #6 Rear U-bolts lose and car drifting to the side.

    Pick one :)
     
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  7. Dec 14, 2015 at 8:05 AM
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    Just checked my tire pressure and they're all sitting pretty at 33 psi. I'm going to take it back to the mechanic and have them go over everything. Gonna have 'em do all kinds of troubleshooting.
     
  8. Dec 14, 2015 at 8:23 AM
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    Not sure whether or not the dealer did an alignment at all when they fixed the leaf springs. I'll have to check to receipt
     
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  9. Dec 14, 2015 at 8:27 PM
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    Went to the mechanic and had him check just about everything and am coming up short. He didn't even charge me after roughly two hours of servicing. Totally confused as to why it's still pulling right, maybe it was just a bad alignment?
     
  10. Dec 14, 2015 at 8:30 PM
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    Hmmm... Now that would be interesting. I guess I could test this easily enough by having my tires rotated, right?
     
  11. Dec 14, 2015 at 8:34 PM
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    I would definitely check to make sure you do not have any frozen camber bolts in the A-arm. Its a known problem with Toyota Trucks. Bad camber will make the truck pull.
     
  12. Dec 14, 2015 at 8:37 PM
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    After reading the title I think I am able to solve this problem.. steer slightly more to the left. :thumbsup:
     
  13. Dec 14, 2015 at 8:40 PM
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    Or that^
     
  14. Dec 14, 2015 at 8:45 PM
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    My truck pulls to the right as well.. Need to replace the tires soon because its been long enough the inside 2-3 inches on each front are worn. I'm worried it could be the knuckle. When I bought the truck used from Toyota of Temecula, it had a bent knuckle which pulled the truck to the right pretty bad and made them fix it. Later, I got new tires, alignment, and it pulled again. A few months went by and it still pulled but by then the tires had worn a little. I had the alignment shop realign and they said everything was good from the readings on the machine.
    Within the next month new tires are going on, and if it continues to pull I dont know what I'm going to do. Ive checked the tie rod ends and wheel hub play.
     

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