Tony Posted April 27, 2007 Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 Torque steer is very common on FWD cars when the application of thrust off-sets the drive train thus pulling the car to one side, then off the thrust relaxing the train to neutral as the driver steers. Torque steer on a RWD is unheard of unless the diff is hanging out so immediate to diagnose. Recently wim has had a RWD with dire torque steer. The Geometry was measured and corrected with no real obvious distress..... The diff was in place and no play evident in the steering or bushings. After the owners feed back was that the problem still existed Although one comment bugged me. Initially when driving the car is fine, then after a few miles the torque steer cuts in. Then the reason hit home.... The car has a binding rear caliper. The initial part of the journey is fine, as the disc heats up the bind becomes intense and acts on one rear wheel pulling the car. Obviously we do a preliminary checks on the cars condition prior to calibration but there is no need to check the brakes... Until now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted April 27, 2007 Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 Good observation there. Did their brake disc not glow and smell of burning then? I know mine did when I wound the piston out too much on one side! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted April 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 Good observation there. Did their brake disc not glow and smell of burning then? I know mine did when I wound the piston out too much on one side! No the bind was slight and the car is the very light MX5. What caught me out was the lack of a blued disc and the fact that each time i work on the car the disc had cooled so there was no detectable bind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted April 28, 2007 Report Share Posted April 28, 2007 But I thought there would've been some kind of indication on the disc no matter how tight the bind is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted April 28, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2007 But I thought there would've been some kind of indication on the disc no matter how tight the bind is? On reflection i noticed the pads had 'powered' due to heat, but there were no hot spots or blued discs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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