Front end parts replaced now problems

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting' started by Steve 72, Oct 5, 2023.

  1. Steve 72

    Steve 72 Junior Member

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    Something I never have never seen before
    Replaced:
    Lower control arm
    Lower ball joint
    Outer tie rod end
    CV Axle
    Problem:
    LF toe -5.0 degrees
    RF toe -3.4 degrees
    Steering wheel of about 75 degrees
    Front end shop says all old and new parts are exact measurements and had no answer to put back into spec
    Could not figure it out... I've never came across this after I have done Front end work in the past. Where to start???
    I'm out a loss
    Can't drive car tires chirping and smell burnt rubber
    Thanks for any help
     
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    Tombukt2 Senior Member

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    You measuring camber or tow in toe out which is adjusted with the tie rods The camber is usually adjusted with a special bolt and one of the two strut mount bolts The bottom one usually gets replaced with the one that has an offset in it that you can rotate the head of the bolt around to adjust the degrees of positive or negative camber I've never heard of toe being measured or talked about in degrees It's usually an eighth of an inch toed in or such. Of course maybe in these modern times they measure this in degrees now right personally don't know.
     
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    Something somewhere hasn't seated I don't know how they can get it all back together and keep it unseated That's very strange. Do both the amounts of threads exiting the nut for the front drive axle shafts are they the same on each side different on the side that's just been reassembled? Something somewhere is not seated properly I'm almost positive you can't get the parts incorrectly I'm not even sure how you would do that like get a longer ball joint with a longer tongue that sticks out farther which would throw the alignment off but highly unlikely that ball joint covers quite a few Toyota models if I'm not mistaken.
     
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    There was a steering rack recall on Gen2... They added some extra bolts where the rack mounts to the gears where the steering wheel connects. Maybe that has something to do with it?
     
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