Steering hard to the right
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Steering hard to the right
Turning to the right is a lot harder than to the left. It's pretty much undriveable. The power steering works perfectly fine. It turns left with ease but its just hard to turn right. I swapped EPS module, noise filter, and rack harness from a friends rx8 to check if it could be something electrical but its still the same problem. I also cleaned and greased the lower U-joint but didn't help. Are there any other parts that could cause the hard steering or is my rack bad?
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Thanks for the info guys, I lifted the car and tried to turn the wheel with the car off and its was still hard to the right. I took the tie rods off to see if they might be bent and I found that the steering rack part where the left inner tie rod goes screwed onto was bent causing resistance when you turn right so i ordered a used replacement rack. I searched but couldn't find a DIY guide on replacing the rack. Is it difficult to replace?
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I think j9 means did you search in the workshop manual for the procedure to set the steering in the neutral position, there are several things to do to reset it.
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Damn dude, if you searched you might have found the suggestions threads linked in this thread.
https://www.rx8club.com/trouble-shoo...n-left-245110/
https://www.rx8club.com/trouble-shoo...n-left-245110/
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Well if you read all my posts you can see that I'm not having the hard steering to one side problem anymore. I replaced the steering rack and my new problem is that the wheel turns all the way left on its own, and as i mentioned in my first post, i already swapped a different rack harness from a friends rx8 with good power steering so I am sure the connectors on the harness aren't the problem.
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How do you mean: "the wheel turns all the way to the left on it's own"? Does it do it with the key in the car and engine is ON or it turns to the left from the center and turns on it's own as it sits on the ground parked with the engine OFF? If your problem occurs is the latter, then your problem is mechanical and you may have to check what you installed again. I wouldn't know mechanically since I haven't tinkered with the car's suspension. Otherwise, the problem is electrical and it's your EPS.
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It turns to the left when the engine is on only. I think maybe the sensor or the motor on the rack might be bad. Il proabably just end up disabling the power assist and use the car that way because I don't really want to spend money on buying another rack.
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its probably a programming/steering angle sensor thing, the rack is probably fine.
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Or, the harness. Clean the contact points, replace it with new, or hard wire the connections. I had that problem after my engine was replaced; cleaned all the connections, the one by the battery, the two ground wires, the two connections under the coolant reservior overspill-tube(extend the tube away from the harness), and the one below connected to the steering rack. Besides using dielectric cleaner and zinc based grease, clean the contact plates with a wire brush and flex plates in the female ends of the harness.
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Thanks for the help everyone. So would I have to take the car to a dealer to have them program the sensor or set the neutral position? I read the procedure and it says something about connecting a WDS to the DLC-2? I will also try to better clean my harness with a wire brush and see what happens.
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