Hey Ferm, got a Jeep question
My 96 2wd Cherokee is driving a little funny. I just had new tires put on it and they did an alignment( the old tires were so bad I couldn't tell if anythign was wrong). I give the tire shop the benefit of doubt that they did a proper alignment based on my past experiance with them. The probelm is the front end seems a little "loose"( is this normal for these cars?). It wants to dart and follow the grooves in the pavement. If I slam on brakes, it darts back and forth( either side). Under normal firm braking, it stays straight so I don't think its the brakes(just did them, new rotors, calipers, and pads). I jacked up the front end and put a pry bar on everything I could push against, the tie rod ends, drag link, and track bar seem OK, no signs of the ball joints or steering arm being worn. The car does have 140K miles on it. the *only thing I found was the controll arm bushings seem a little soft, I could move the arms around( no a lot of movement, but they would move) with the pry bar with out a lot of effort. Figured I'd start with putting new bushings in the controll arms, any recomendaton on bushings? Would pst or urathane be too harsh? Or do you have abetter idea?
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