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Old 08-04-2012, 10:26 PM
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My escort s1 turbo pulls across the road when not under power,it's had a new rack and ball joints any ideas would be helpful cheers
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try a geometry allignment
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It used to be a bit of a common thing with them,mine tracked badly to the left on a certain stretch of road.
As said alignment check and also check the brackets holding the twin antiroll bar set up arent cracked or broken,even that they look in a similar place both sides as that was a cause on another one I owned.
I think there's a company making spares now as I couldn't get them from ford back in 1998 and had them made up in work.
Also big wheels and extensive lowering don't help either,not saying yours is but worth noting.
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Sounds like tracking / steering alignment. I'm guessing the rack & ball joints were fitted correctly: wheels were straight and the rack & joints set-up as per the originals (as far as possible)? I think that the steering rack would alter lock-to-lock and the steering wheel being straight rather than wandering but if you haven't had the tracking checked then that would be my guess.
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