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I had my 08 Z06 aligned a couple weeks back, but the steering wheel was still a little off center. Being OCD and wanting it as centered as possible, I went under the car to adjust the tie rods and noticed there is an uneven amount of threads exposed between sides. On the driver side, the jam nut is bottomed out on the threads, and the passanger side has about 1" of exposed threads.
Since the car is aligned and tracks straight I'm not overly concerned, but it doesn't appear normal. Any ideas what would cause this? Is it possible a previous owner pulled the steering rack and installed off-center or the steering shaft rotated 1/4 turn?
I'm no expert but that does not look right. You should have threads showing on both sides. I'm guessing that somebody set the toe in by adjusting only to one side. My steering was off in the same way and I adjusted it by turning both tie rods equal amounts so as to not change my alignment.
Perhaps someone with more experience will chime in.
C6 has a steering wheel sensor that will read zero when the steering wheel is straight. Most shops do not have a Tech II to read the sensor to make sure that the wheel is straight when they align the car, and you end up with the steering wheel cocked when you are going down the road. It not only the looks of the steering wheel not being straight, but the AH that is trying to use this senor that it reading will be all screwed up as well.
Also, when you put the steering wheel on the column, you use the alignment arrow on the shaft to align the wheel with it.
So if the wheel is straight with you going straight down the road straight, then something is very, very wrong with the car. If could be the shaft coupling to rack pulled and not put back indexed correctly, it could be the steering wheel not indexed with the shaft marker, or it could some thing very, very wrong with the suspension or frame bent instead.
Outer Tie Rod Alignment
