Peer pressured into a really good deal on a set of 33 inch mud tires, I temparilary threw em on and headed for the mud. All went really well and though I never got stuck in the deep holes because of the great TQ and HP, when i got back onto dry pavement still in 4wd the truck will pull quite violently to the drivers side. It does it only in 4wd so much so that I have to countersteer to keep things straight. What could it be?

 

put your stock tires back on, id bet the pull goes away


anyway your technically not supposed to drive around in 4wd on dry pavement. i get alot of people come in the shop through the year complaining about binding while doing parking lot menuvers, and excessive noise when in 4wH on dry pavement

larger tires can also exaggerate a bad alignment- if it was off a little bit befor- wider tires will make it feel worse, when i went to p285-20s on my truck from 265 i had a bad pull to the right, i aligned it and all was well

 

I understand what ya mean about the fact that it could be a bad alignment made worse by the bigger tires but the fact that I didnt mention on my previous post is the pulling only happens when I get on the throttle in 4wd which leads me to believe its something more than a tire/alignment issue. When the big tires were first put on the truck it drive perfectly straight on the throttle in 4wd on the dry pavement. Something occured in the mudholes that made this pulling occur.

 

Take a look at your idler and pitman arm.

 

Anyone Else Thinking Bad Axle?? Violent Pulll Would Tell Me Possibly Only One Axle Maybe??

 

pitman idler arm probably... maybe bearing but not cv or anything in the axle. IMHO

 

ill be tearing things apart next weekend, just wanted to know what i might be replacing once im in there. So if its pulling to the left under accelerating...would that mean im broken at the front drivers side?

 

that would seem to be correct... then again it was just a theory.... hopefully you can get it knocked out

 

put it in 4hi and punch it with someone in the pass side and both of you watching the front tires make sure they both spin. ohhh yea make sure your in the dirt or grass

 

you may also want to check your inner tie rods, to see if you bent one of them..