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Hey Guys   I m  Back...   The bomb is still on the road!!  that makes  34 years now.  one owner, clean...yes.   any way..  passed emission yesterday.  yea.    hey is it possible  if the power steering pump was going out. to make it feel like truck is pulling to the left.  like a pulley going out...   gonna check tires tomorrow.  but steering feels   like jerky,,,,   choppy ....  pully skweels  in the winter on cold days. 

Good to be back.   Jason.   

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Alignment. Adjust a front wheel to face forward by looking down across the sidewalls and aligning them with the rear tire. It's not as easy as it looks. Get one side straight, then go look at the other. The front should more or less mirror the other side. If you look down across the front sidewalls and can't see the rear tire, it's toed in. If you can see the tread on the rear tire, it's toed out. Usually alignment calls for very slight toe in.

 

Rotor out of round or high spots.

 

Low tire pressure on one wheel.

 

Mismatched tire sizes or makes.

 

If pulling when braking, maybe leaky caliper on the other side and brake fluid on rotor. Could be leaking rear drum brake. Fluid on a rotor or drum will reduce braking on that side causing an imbalance.

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Hey mike.   good to hear from you again..    Yea.  so I jacked  up the back wheel on passenger side.  wheel is free. I can spin it like one and quarter to one and  half turns   .  I also backed off the parking break cable slack.  just in case because I have not used them for like 20 years.  In case some dumb ass at jiffy lube pulls the brake... Filled up rear pass tire because it goes down ....test drove still pulling to right so..  Its funny because its never not gone straight down the road.  so maybe I will try the aligment..   I have taken it shops for aligment.  but they just hand me the keys back and laugh at me..  I bought a lifetime alignment at sears.  in 1986.  but they wont honer it... So its really good to know I can try it manually.   first I am going to rotate tires.  and ...oh yea. I want to bleed the air out of power steering pump.  If I 

remember right.  you turn it all the way from side to side with cap off right??    last time ps fluid burped out.   made a messs..   and oh yea, I think brakes are ok.. brakes straight.  and none of the wheels are getting hot to touch after test drive..    cool thanks  man!!!   

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This is just a visual test. If you can see it, it is probably out bad enough.

 

 

What I do is drive two metal rods or stakes in the ground about 4-5 feet apart and pull a string tightly between them at about the height of the center of the wheel hub. Then do the same far enough to the side that you can drive your vehicle between them ... say 7 or 8 feet over. Take careful measurements and make the two strings totally parallel to each other. The ground should also be level and smooth with a long enough approach that the vehicle is driving straight between them..

 

Drive the vehicle between the strings with the wheels facing straight ahead.

 

Carefully measure the right side, from the string in to the front edge of the rim and record this measurement. Now measure from the string in, to the rear rim edge and record it

Now do the same on the left front wheel.

 

Add the two front measurements and record them. Add the two rear measurements and record them.

 

If the added front measurement is smaller than the rear added measurement then you are toed out.

 

If the front measurement is larger than the rear you are toed in.

 

The '84 4x4 toe in measurement is 2-4mm or 0.08" - 0.16" roughly 1/8" to 5/32"

 

 

Turn the steering wheel so that one rim is parallel with the string, same measurement in to the front and the rear of the rim. Raise the other wheel till it just barely clears the ground and loosen the tie rod end adjustments and turn them in or out till the front rim edge to string is 1/8" to 3/32" larger than the string to the rear edge of the rim. This should give you the proper toe in.

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