BJinDallas
New Member
I've got some serious steering and front end alignment issues with my EZGO gas golf cart. I'll try to explain it the best I can. I've been in the car business for over 10 years, built cars, restored, blah blah blah..... My point is, IM NOT AN IDIOT when it comes to this stuff
Here goes:
Going slow isnt so much an issue, its when I go fast is when $hit starts to get hairy. I've had 4 golf carts before I got this one and never had one act like this. When your driving 10mph+... trying to go dead strait, it feels like the front of the cart is "floating". It weaves back and forth, not major, but enough to where you have to correct it. With the steering wheel dead center, it simply wont go straight! Little corrections left and right and left and right and left and right get really old!! Like I said, none of my other carts did this. My first instincts are either the alignment is way off or something is loose (bushings..... I dont know). Went home and did some measuring, alignment is fine. What else could be the problem?
On the same note, I'm SURE they are related, once again, when moving at over a turtles pace the steering is scary. I was going down my neighborhood street last night at "20-mph-ish" and moved the steering wheel at what I could compare to... "a lane change on the highway at 70" (not very much), and the cart nearly threw me off of it. I seriously almost flipped this thing. I can understand the way this thing turned if I had jerked the steering wheel, but I seriously just BARELY moved it. My thought is, something is LOOSE, or bent. Any ideas? THANKS!
ALSO, When the cart LEANS to the LEFT, it vears to the RIGHT. When the cart LEANS to the RIGHT, it vears to the LEFT. This cant be normal. I dont mean when I turn, I mean literally when Im going straight, i can bounce or jump on the seat and it will turn.
Here goes:
Going slow isnt so much an issue, its when I go fast is when $hit starts to get hairy. I've had 4 golf carts before I got this one and never had one act like this. When your driving 10mph+... trying to go dead strait, it feels like the front of the cart is "floating". It weaves back and forth, not major, but enough to where you have to correct it. With the steering wheel dead center, it simply wont go straight! Little corrections left and right and left and right and left and right get really old!! Like I said, none of my other carts did this. My first instincts are either the alignment is way off or something is loose (bushings..... I dont know). Went home and did some measuring, alignment is fine. What else could be the problem?
On the same note, I'm SURE they are related, once again, when moving at over a turtles pace the steering is scary. I was going down my neighborhood street last night at "20-mph-ish" and moved the steering wheel at what I could compare to... "a lane change on the highway at 70" (not very much), and the cart nearly threw me off of it. I seriously almost flipped this thing. I can understand the way this thing turned if I had jerked the steering wheel, but I seriously just BARELY moved it. My thought is, something is LOOSE, or bent. Any ideas? THANKS!
ALSO, When the cart LEANS to the LEFT, it vears to the RIGHT. When the cart LEANS to the RIGHT, it vears to the LEFT. This cant be normal. I dont mean when I turn, I mean literally when Im going straight, i can bounce or jump on the seat and it will turn.
