horrible frontend alignment

[groundpounder]

Originally Posted by gornoman

Shocks do not locate the axle or A-arms. They merely react to verticle motions. The only way a shock could cause this is if......nope, can't think of any way.

oh ok never mind like i said i have had 2 yamaha carts that did do this. and it was weak front shocks. not saying that is the problem with his. sounds funny but true.... same thing i said was no way

[crash12888]

measure the toe and post it here.......

[gary]

yeah ill pop a tire off some time this week and see wtf is goin on...personally im gunna say either wheel bearing or the pitman arm lookin thing that both tie rods connect to that hooks em to the steering box....

[shawn.m]

pittman arms and tie rods wont cause you tires to camber out \ /and then camber in /\ . loose tie rods will cause the front of your tires to toe out when you go forward and then toe in when you go in reverse.

only things that will cause this will be no bearings in the wheel bearings, bad bushings in the A-arms, no king ping bushings, and then bad shocks

as the the springs would be so weak that just putting the cart in reverse would push the front of the cart down and camber the tire in /\. putting it in forward would lift the front of the cart and cause the tires to camber in \ /
remember the G2/G9 shocks only travel 2.5? inchs in front. With a short A-arm it does not take much to camber it or camber out.

[Kayak]

Thanx ,Shawn thats alot of good info

[clayfor]

I had the same problem on my G9. With toe in/out wrong it will walk all over the road while driving. Hard to control. Also my stock shocks were wore out. I replaced them with motorcycle air shocks and fixed the toe in toe out and that solved the problem. I'm not saying it's not all the other things (bearings, king pins, etc). I'm just saying how I fixed mine. After getting the toe in toe out correct, I haven't seen much tire wear in 5 years and I drive only on the road. Make sure both sides are the same measuring from the center of the rear axle to the center of your front axle. I hope this helps.

[magicshoes]

I just installed a Jake's 6 inch lift and have a similar problem on my G2. In reverse, camber looks fairly good but in forward there is bad positive camber. There was some slop in the wheel bearings so I guess I will start there after reading Shawn.M's post!