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echo: oldcars
to: JOEL HECKMAN
from: LANDON ROBINSON
date: 1998-02-20 16:50:00
subject: Re: Truck steering column.

 -=> Quoting Joel Heckman to Landon Robinson <=-
 JH> @MSGID: 1:214/80@fidonet.org b7e04a48
 -> I have another question for you.  All the roads are "crowned" here
 -> (it rains alot) my truck has a twin i-beam front suspension and when
 -> I am on a "crowned" road I have to turn the steering wheel to the
 -> left to make it steer straight. On a flat road it steers fine.  Is
 -> this normal of is the front end wearing out?  It's the same truck the
 -> '77 Ford F-250 2wd.
 JH> Actually, from what I know, that is normal for any car.  Every car
 JH> that I've ever driven on a crowned road pulls to the right on that
 JH> particular road, but tracks normal on non-crowned roads.
I was just wondering I havn't driven this truck in around five years or so
and have forgotten how it steered.  My '68 Impala has to be on a fairly steep
"crown" before it throws it off.
Ttyl,
-Landon
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