Left Wheel loose? - 93 240sx

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k, thought I'd make a new post incase someone searches, since I couldn't find anything searching for various things, instead of putting it in my motor pulsing post, keeps things organized.

A month or so ago (yeah, should have looked at this sooner ) I noticed that my car was harder to control on the freeway with our large ruts. Try to go straight, the wheel will want to pull in one direction usually the left.

I know why, there's a problem somewhere in the left wheel.

At an auto-x event 4 weeks ago, I almost failed tech when they did the wheel-shake-test. It kinda moves back and forth, not stearing, but like at the strut. Like if you were pulling the wheel at the upper mount you can feel it move a tiny amount.

When the car is lifted you can't really get it to move. It does it really small, then stops all together and it won't rock back and forth. When the car is put back on the ground, it won't do it either, but after I've been driving it and stop, you can get it to rock.

My dad says wheel bearing. Iunno, it seems like it's coming from my Cusco upper mounts, which I've had a problem with sticking on that side (they don't turn smoothly and put tension on the spring which causes it to want to pull in the direction I was turning last, but only tight turns) but I couldn't get anything to move really when I can see stuff, so it's throwing me off.

We're gonna repack the bearing tomorrow, but I have a feeling that won't fix it. T/C and tension rods/ends seem solid, nothing moves, but I have SPL replacements on the way eitherway. I also have KTS coils in my garage, but I was waiting to put those in.

When driving down the freeway, it's really sloppy. It'll wanna flop to the left or right. Kinda annoying to keep it going straight. I don't notice any steering lag or lack of angle when racing, though.


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