Defender Pulling to the left

[Dockstrada]

Today I took the 110 in for a wheel alignment as it was pulling to the left .
Well after I got it back it still pulls to the left .

The Tec stated that it was only a fraction out and wouldn’t have been the problem , So I left him scratching his head as I did mine .
Does anyone have any ideas, it will pull across 1 lane in around 100mtrs , yet I cant feel much pull on the steering wheel its sort of weird .

[Marty110]

IMHO all defenders pull to the left slightly. My old 300Tdi pulled exactly the same to the left as my Puma. I am probably wrong but I reckon their chassis jigs are out a bit on the left side. I took my 300 to a chassis align place and they found that one side was marginally longer than the other and that was why they reckoned it pulled to the left, with little you could do about it. For the Puma I was told that the correction could only be made in the swivel hubs which would involve rebuilding brand new swivels - not an option I liked. So with both my defenders I fitted an RTC steering damper and loaded it up (just a little bit) to counter the left pull - takes a bit of trial and error and quite a few drives unless you are lucky enough to crack it first go! Got both my Deefers tracking spot on and with perfectly even tyre wear lucky enough!

[Dockstrada]

IMHO all defenders pull to the left slightly. My old 300Tdi pulled exactly the same to the left as my Puma. I am probably wrong but I reckon their chassis jigs are out a bit on the left side. I took my 300 to a chassis align place and they found that one side was marginally longer than the other and that was why they reckoned it pulled to the left, with little you could do about it. For the Puma I was told that the correction could only be made in the swivel hubs which would involve rebuilding brand new swivels - not an option I liked. So with both my defenders I fitted an RTC steering damper and loaded it up (just a little bit) to counter the left pull - takes a bit of trial and error and quite a few drives unless you are lucky enough to crack it first go! Got both my Deefers tracking spot on and with perfectly even tyre wear lucky enough!

Yeah my head was heading in that direction as I had the same problem with the f250, I also thought it might be a problem with warn bushes.

Sounds like a plan .

[isuzurover]

Sounds like you may have some rear steer in your suspension. Bent trailing arm? Worn bushes???

[Dockstrada]

Sounds like you may have some rear steer in your suspension. Bent trailing arm? Worn bushes???

The trailing arms are straight checked them with a straight edge, though I think the eye ball test would suffice in this case, may need to look at some new bushes.

[isuzurover]

The trailing arms are straight checked them with a straight edge, though I think the eye ball test would suffice in this case, may need to look at some new bushes.

Measure hub centre - hub centre distance on each side.

[rick130]

It all depends on road camber.

The more camber, the more they pull. A dead flat surface and they steer straight.

Easy fix is a slightly longer front trailing arm bush at the chassis end to extend the wheelbase slightly on the nearside.
Super-Pro make one just for this purpose.

The correct fix is slightly more castor on the LHS wheel, but you need to slot the swivels for that, and then it will pull to the right when the camber is the other way, eg. when overtaking.

[Jock The Rock]

Do you still have a standard steering damper?

What about tyre pressures?

[pushrod]

my 2011 Puma did that as well.. i tried the wheel alignment first too, with no change... booked it in with the dealer, they adjusted the steering box and with another wheel alignment after , the problem was gone .. much happier
25k now and pretty even tyre wear

[chook73]

As Rick said I find it's road camber with mine. If you are not sure try driving on the wrong side of the road (obviously somewhere safe) and see how it goes.


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