I want your opinion before i end up possibly swapping my steering rack for no reason
my car goes through a UCA every month or so. I'm not sure if the ball joints i'm using are just shitty and near the end of their life or the following
I don't know how the inside of the steering rack works whether there's something in it that stops the steering wheel from turning anymore cause you hit a 'full lock', but when turning the steering wheel both ways, the part of the knuckle where the tie-rod end goes through hits the forks, like this
I'm pretty sure it's not supposed to do that. the steering wheel will turn another 20-30 or so degrees more either way before it wont turn any more. which I'm guessing is cause the knuckle & tie-rod being in-line with each other, and the steering rack can't pull it any more without putting stress on the ball joints (causing my UCA issue). the steering wheel feels like it wants to turn more, it doesn't feel like it does when you normally hit full lock.
Does that make sense?
I know the car could do with a wheel alignment, but i doubt it's so far out that i get these kind of issues
i do full lock turns quite often in my day to day driving
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