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LCA and Torque Steer - Surgery Required

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Old May 22, 2025 | 03:24 PM
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LCA and Torque Steer - Surgery Required

Recently am overtaking a car to cross lane, then felt this hard pull to the right, and as soon as I eased up, car leveled in the lane (Torque steer)

yup, surgery on them LCA’s (did this on the previous Gen x 2). Purchased both Arms online

each side took me 4 hours w jackstand, - after much wiggle and rubber banging, had to remove struts down to the axle from the spindle, then work way back up after replacing LCA. Tried shortcut but needed more fingers to help, resulted in more pull offs!!!

the middle rubber joint L - LCA was the culprit. Softer and started to tear.

guess I can say: if TS to the right, the L LCA is faulted (tried getting some answers which LCA is bad)

only 75k on the 2017 - hhhmmmm

had to realign, back to reg driving!





Old May 23, 2025 | 06:59 AM
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My JX35 is almost the same design. One side was easy, the other side needed more room and had to take more parts off. I did them as preventative maintenance, maybe 120k miles in 2022. There were some cracks. There are rebuild bushings available, no ball joints unfortunately.
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