Car wants to hunt....
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Racer
Joined: Oct 2003
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From: Midland Texas
Car wants to hunt....
88 C5
Vehicle wants to hunt or walk a little on the road only after going over bumps. As maybe, while unloading the front end. I have new tires and just aligned. Was doing this before tires and alignment. I cant seem to make any ball joints move, maybe the pitman??? Any ideas? Thanks. :thumbs:
Vehicle wants to hunt or walk a little on the road only after going over bumps. As maybe, while unloading the front end. I have new tires and just aligned. Was doing this before tires and alignment. I cant seem to make any ball joints move, maybe the pitman??? Any ideas? Thanks. :thumbs:
Drifting
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From: Lakeport CA
Re: Car wants to hunt.... (USAsOnlyWay)
Also if your toe is set close to zero. Which is good for reducing wear but will cause the car to dart around over bumps etc. Mine used to do that until I had them bump the toe back to 1/16th.
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Re: Car wants to hunt.... (autotech)
Sounds like an alignment problem to me, you should get that done first and then if it doesnt hold alignment you should be able to tell whats gone bad.
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From: Jenison MI
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Re: Car wants to hunt.... (autotech)
tell me, what size tire are you running in the front? the bigger (wider) the tire the more it will want to "walk" around. I run 275's in the front and on some roads it's so bad that people would think I'm drunk.
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Re: Car wants to hunt.... (autotech)
I run 275-40ZR-17's all around...
I know that the 275's make my car do some strange things from time to time.
If this is a new problem I would say to check out all the joints.
