caster is off damn!

[gsxeclipse102]

well before going to get an alignment i wanted to make sure i replaced everything that was bad so far. i noticed my car wants to pull to the right a lot but the tires look dead straight (by eye). Well then i noticed my front passesnger side tire is an inch closer to the front bumper then the other side (great ). after closer examining it looks like the control arm isn't in the rear bushing all the way. There is an inch of it not going in compared to the drivers side which has none. My question is do you think the shaft that goes inside the bushing is bent and can't slip in there anymore or the entire arm is bent even though i can't see any cracks or bends in it. (looks identical to driver side). How much do you think an oem replacement arm is and where can i get one without going to mitsu?

car is a 92 eclipse gsx with completely stock suspension.

 

[jtmcinder]

I can't help with any of your questions, but will point out that mis-matching caster usually causes the car to push towards the side with less caster, so if your passenger-side wheel is shifted forward due to lower control-arm issues, I would have expected the car to push to the left and not the right.

- J "one sentence is all you need" toby

 

[gsxeclipse102]

really?

i figured since the wheel is out farther the car would kind of lean towards that side in the front and turn right. is it possible that the driver side tire is off? when you look at the tire the driver side has equal space on each side of the tire to the body and the passenger side has more space towards the body.