Toyota Steering

[Skyler]

Hey Guys I have a 94 'yota with Camburg uppers, gusseted lowers, dual Bilstein 5100's and a Downey idler arm gusset. I keep eating up idler arm bushings and bending my centerlink(I think). It keeps getting knocked way out of alignment and I don't know where to start short of spending $800.00 bucks for the total chaos King Kong set-up. Do any of you have some sort of trick to keep me going in sort of a straight line? Thanks.

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[Donahoe]

Limit the travel. You are asking the steering to go beyound what it was designed to do as well as driving it harder... If you limit the droop you will save the steering... Go big or go slow.

NEVER LIFT!!!!!

[Skyler]

I have only got about 9 1/2" of travel, and my limit straps are set up about and 1" away from when the ball joint id topped out could this still be a problem?

[Donahoe]

Sure look at the angle of a stock toy at droop then look at yours... Lots more angle on it.... Everytime it droops out it wants to push the steering off its mounts or bend the main tie-rod when it starts back into up travel... if it wasnt a problem then all of the toy 7s trucks would run stock steering... But they dont... Its all big parts and lots of hiems and delrin. Just the facts man.

NEVER LIFT!!!!!

[rdc]

i have a toyota with 16-17 inches travel up front, and i have never had any problems with the steering. I do have heims on the ouside of both tie-rods though, is this why?

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[Donahoe]

I take it your arms are wider then stock? You get better steering angle...

NEVER LIFT!!!!!

[rdc]

my a-arms are 6 inches per side wider than stock ones. does that effect the steering?

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[Donahoe]

sure the longer the arc the more it travels so you dont need to get as radical on the a-arm angle

NEVER LIFT!!!!!

[Jkrell]

Give dan over at Duffco Enterprises a call. He can build you a beefed up idler arm that should solve most of your problems. I believe cost is around 300 bucks, dont quote me though.

[BIG_FAT_LOSER]

I have bent several Idler arms, but have not bent the center link, but have pulled the joints out of their sockets on the pitman and idler arm. I have found that the radical angles the tie rod arms are at when the front is lifted put vertical instead of horizontal loads on the pitman and idler arm pivots on the center link, these pivots are supposed to just turn on an axis like a king pin and not rotate and turn like a ball joint. I think there is no real cheap fix other than raising the outer tie rod mounting location or making a swing set type center link




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