steering fault with ae92 fxgt

[deaf_rattle]

I noticed this morning that my car would twitch.
IT was fairly random, and i havent had time to distinguish when exactly it happens or under which conditions.

But it happened under slow acceleration in a straight line.

IT kinda pulls/twitches to the left.
You can fell the steering wheel move, and the whole car goes to the left.

Anyone had this before?

Maybe a worn tie rod? worn bearing?

cheers

[Mr Revhead]

thats the power of the mighty 4age causeing wheel spin

can you reproduce it? did it only happen once?

[Cahuna]

I find that torque steer is worse in my Sentra (and my old Swift GTI) when the wheel alignment is out, shimmy can come from wheel balancing issues. You haven't clobbered a kerb or something recently?

I also had a vibration and pull in the Sentra a couple of years back, it would happen under both acceleration or a constant throttle load. Doing a couple of tight turns on full lock would fix it, then it would come back again after a while. My mechanic fixed it once and for all at the next service, from memory he said it was a stuffed wheelbearing.

[THA SHZ]

also check ur tyres , u could find tht u may have a separated tyre

[deaf_rattle]

i dont think it was torque steer, i have felt that alot since getting back in the drivers seat of a fwd.

It was really wierd, it felt like the front left wheel had hit a pot hole and caused it to pull to one side, i thought that i mustve hit one, but then it happened a few more times and no sign of pot holes behind me.

Might have to jack it up tomorrow and have a look.

I will try and see what conditions it happens under on my way home from work.

[deaf_rattle]

i dont know too m uch about fwd diffs, but i think my diff is on its way out.

seems to happen most around gear changes.
And not necessarily if giving it revs.

might be time for a new gearbox

[Mr Revhead]

very unusual for the diff to fail in those...... and doesnt sound like diff symptoms

[sergei]

In my previous gearbox (AE101 20v manual) diff failed, it was loud bang with steering trying to go side to side, then regular small bangs syncrhonous with the speed of the car, it turned out that the spyder gears have munched themsels, broken theeth going every where thru diff area inside gearbox, doing heavy grind on the casing aswell... there is no way to miss that sort og failure...

[Mr Revhead]

no there isnt you rough bugger!