ok guys, my truck doesnt like to run staight down the road, recently i changed both outer tie rods and did an alignment on my truck. Thought it would fix the problem but didnt. Noticed after that the inner tie rod connecting to the pitman arm seemed a little loose. Should i replace that too? what else would cause the steering wheel to still be crooked and out of alignment?

 

Does it pull left or right or is the steering wheel just not centered?

 

Your track bar could be shot too.

 

it pulls to the right

 

Make sure the tire pressure is even on all tires.
If it still pulls swap the tires side to side and see if the pull changes.

 

i dont think that would change it that much, i have to pull the steering wheel to the left about 30 degrees, its pretty drastic, ive heard something about the trac bar could be bad, what exactly does a trac bar do?

 

Kind of hard for anyone to give advice since we don't know if it's 2 or 4wd! But replace anything that's loose and check the BJ's front wheel bearings and make sure you don't have a seized up caliper. If that doesn't help, then you"ll want to start looking at the steering gear box.

 

Who did the alingment?? If you did it without seting it up on a aling rack then you did not aling it. Is it realy pulling with you hands off the wheel or is the wheel off center and it go's left or right when you center the wheel? you say you change both outter tie rod ends ? is it a 1500 that has rack and pinion those are hard to set toe and center the wheel in the driveway 2500 and larger are easer . was it doing this before you worked on it???

 

i did my own alignment on my schools alignment rack, the truck pulls to the right, so i have to pull the steering wheel to the left, its a 95 dodge ram 2500 4x4 8800gvw. sorry havnt updated in a few

 

What were your post alignment readings?
Toe won't cause a pull but Camber and Castor will if they aren't even.

I still say don't rule out the tires...