I have a 98 Durango that was an unfortunate victim of a Chevy Spark 😂. For being a tiny car, it did a number of the front end. The durango was parked on the side of the road, wheel turned to the curb, the spark hit it right at the front wheel.
i replaced the shock, the tie rod and the tie rod end. Now the alignment is off (the steering wheel is out by 90deg to the left).
for the life of me, i cannot figure out what was shifted. The pitman arm is keyed and will only go on one way, the intermediate shaft is also keyed.
does anyone have any ideas where i can look next to see about getting this Steering wheel straightened out?
the only thing i van think of would be the wrong tie rod, but i only replaced the drivers side, and measured the old against the new.

any suggestions for correcting this would be greatly appreciated..

thank you in advance.

 

Something is bent...... While the Spark isn't very big, it still has a fair bit of mass, and that's all it takes to turn steering linkages into pretzels.