DannyK35

I recently had new struts put on my '01 Ex coupe, and wow what a difference.

Anyway, now that they are in, my steering wheel is turned about 45 degrees from it's normal position when I'm driving straight. There isn't an alignment issue (I don't think) and there isn't a problem with the car veering to one side while driving, I just don't know what happened as to why it sits in this position while driving straight. Any help is appreciated.

BlueEM2

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Did you get an alignment done? Did you do the install yourself?

DannyK35

No, no alignment done yet. I helped install them with my gf's bro-in-law (ex-mechanic). I didn't notice the issue til we got on the road.

sdaidoji

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you know what to do, right? ...
And it is not to pray for Jesus, because he won't help you in that...
Please, 31 years old, change the struts and do not align and posts why the alignments seems to be off? ... and claims to be jesus? Jeez...

DannyK35

Holy ****, I'm being flamed by a 38 yr old Canasian riceboy..... I thought ricers grew out of that stage after they hit 21, guess not. I mean, modding a 2k1 (yes, this site used to be called 2k1civic.com/7thgencivic.com before it was merged into the site you see before you..you probably didn't know that but hey, now you do!) is great and all, but ninja please. At your age you should be driving something better. Unless of course, this is your daily driver. Much respect!

And wow, I thought I was old on this site, considering I've been a member since 2001 and have never claimed to be a gearhead. And yet you are a member since....2008.

Either way thanks for the super advice. I usually take my questions to PMs because I know that old friends on the site will help me out when I need it. That's why I am still here, there are good people on this site that don't act like SA GBS *******s who threadshit on legitimate threads when assistance is actually needed.

So go eat some Phở flavored poutine and have fun as you approach being middle aged. Oh and thanks again for your advice, I'll get my alignment stat. *******.

And to the old school 7th Gen clan..... "my girlfriend is hotter than that "

edit: oh yeah, the "My nickname was Jesus back in high school" sig.... It's from a Notorious BIG song, you were probably hitting your 30s at that time. Sorry you missed that.

xRiCeBoYx

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Lol.. I saw your username as the thread starter and assumed it was a noob bumping an ancient thread..

Back on topic before a (relative) noob gets burned... You sure everything got everything bolted up proper? See what happens after the alignment.

DannyK35

^^thank you sir, I think.

Yes, I was asking a noob question but I did not expect someone to respond as such. Thanks man, I figured that an alignment would take care of everything but I just wanted to know if there was anything else to look out for. This isn't the Off Topic forum (which was awesome back in the day) so I didn't expect n00b flaming etc. Again I was just looking for solid advice from 7thGenners that were apt to help out a fellow member with his/her car. Hell, I would've just asked gearbox for advice if I wanted to. But thanks again man, you are one of the few that have been around for a while.

xRiCeBoYx

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Yea man.. I figured (after realizing you made the thread today) that you wanted to see if there was any light that someone could shed on the situation.

Hell, if that happened to me, I would have done the same. I would have had a momentary "WTF did I mess up this time.. *sigh*" moment, then posted something on the forums to get some dummy check advice before the obvious [alignment] were to occur say, the following day.

In an attempt to correct the steering wheel problem, I'd pull the front wheels off and dummy check everything you touched to swap the struts. The only thing I could think of would be the tie rods, but that would cause you to veer off to one way or another.. I kinda wanna know what caused it now.

Edit: I'm always willing to help out a member that was here for the 2k1civic/7thgen days, no matter how stupid the thread topic may seem.

DannyK35

(love you xRiceboyx, not in a gay way)

Yeah I'm going to check the tie rods after we do an alignment (if that doesn't fix it).

I've just been dealing with this P0420 issue so that's been my major concern recently, but my gf's bro-in-law and I took care of the struts this past week because it was just annoying to hit bumps and feel massive rattling so we tackled it. Thanks again for chiming in man.

xRiCeBoYx

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Heh.. I'm dealing with a p0420 code too.. Peeking under my car, there's a fatty dent in my random tech cat
Also got an intermittent p1457 code...

But yea, let us (who actually give a damn) know if the alignment fixes it.

You know how I know you're gay?

Hahaha.. just kidding

DannyK35

You have a rainbow bumper sticker on your car that says, "I like it when ***** are in my face." (sorry man, random 40 yr old virgin quote)

xRiCeBoYx

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hahaha. well played.

BlueEM2

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Yea for sure let us know. If you take it to a decent shop that does the alignment they will actually tell you if something is wrong before they even do it. I never even noticed your join date when i posted that first post.

Respect!

xRiCeBoYx

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Like I said, when I saw this thread after clicking "new posts" and seeing sdaidoji as the last post and DannyK as the thread starter, I thought it was a noob bumping a 5 year old thread..

gearbox

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alignment would be a good idea, but ive never come across drastic steering wheel angles just from a car being out of alignment. when i had springs and shocks put in, i could still drive the car fine and steering wheel was straight, even tho alignment specs were way off. did you line up the indexing arrows during the install? its possible they were not installed properly. but to answer your question if everything was done right, an alignment shop should be able to play with the tie rod ends to fix the tilted steering wheel. seems like right now, its mostly a cosmetic issue.

sdaidoji

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hit the spot!
Sorry bout that...
Hope you had just heard about them and not tasted them...
Apologies, did not know of your background...
mid-aged ricer boy! sometimes it's hard to keep the temper in control with all the noobs saying really stupid things...

Sorry, man, thought you were just another guy that have just been in the "slam your car all the way" forums and couldn't deal with the real suspension adjustments... I am a bad dog...

sdaidoji

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starting to look out after my temper again... Seems i had been doing it a lot lately...

BlueEM2

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^ Remember what I said before. It's a forum, people are asking for help because they don't know. Not everyone knows what you know so you have to show some patience. Your not going to make a lot of friends quick with responses like the one above.

sdaidoji

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Ah, and not canadian, but brazilian that lives in TN and temporarily transferred to Canada (and no, it's not because of temper if anyone is wondering ) - need to say that or TBohar would be misunderstood.
And yeah, this is the DD, I have a Miata for harder duties.

sdaidoji

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Yup! keeping temper in check... Not for the purpose of making friends, but for it is not really polite, for starters...

BlueEM2

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I'm confused. Please enlighten me why I'd be misunderstood?

sdaidoji

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thought you were a real canadian? Not a guy temporarily in canada?

xRiCeBoYx

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hahahahaha

BlueEM2

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Alright, apparently I shouldn't go on forums after work cuz im too tired to decipher your code man... So your Brazilian, cool... I'm Croatian, nice to meet you. Still shoud be nice to people... His response was justified, accurate or not.

sdaidoji

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Woops... true, you are croatian... (from other thread, had forgotten...) Yes, understand that and keeping temper in check from now (again... sigh for me...)

BlueEM2

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LOL Canasian Riceboy is pretty good... you should put that in your sig...

Sdaidoji, the Canasian Riceboy

sdaidoji

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nope! Though i have to agree that was funny!

xRiCeBoYx

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YES I KNOW I"M BUMPING A 3 WEEK OLD THREAD

But, I recently had a similar problem. I raised my Tein SS-P's so they'd stop eating my fender linings (.25" up front, .64" in the back, just to even it out)

Well, I put everything back together, and my steering wheel was cocked at ~10-15º to the left. I have an appointment at an aftermarket shop to get my alignment done tomorrow morning.

However, I decided to take a look at things and just make sure everything was torqued down. Fixed the camber plates on the top so they both lined up to the first tick mark. I think each tick mark is .5º camber adjustment. Torqued those down to 15ft-lbs. Also checked the torque on the top strut mounting bolts as well as the tie rod end strut attachment. Put the car down on the ground and re-checked the strut top mounting bolts and camber plate hex nuts. Took her out for a test drive and my steering wheel was pointing straight. The only thing I really changed was my driver side camber plate..
There's still a bit of negative camber, but I'll get that fixed

Moral of the story, strut could have been indexed wrong or stuff's torque loosed up or was under-torqued

DannyK35

you know what to do, right? ...
And it is not to pray for Jesus, because he won't help you in that...
Please, 31 years old, change the struts and do not align and posts why the alignments seems to be off? ... and claims to be jesus? Jeez...

(sorry, I couldn't resist...but thank you sir for the update!)

DannyK35

(double post. new bluetooth mouse = Dan clicking twice and not realizing it)