Alignment and offroading

if you start to get a shimmy in the steering wheel at highway speeds then you should start with getting your wheels balanced. even light offroading can knock off your wheel weights.

outlnder said:

Front wheel drive vehicles are notorious for being out of alignment. Since the power wheels are also the steering wheels, they get tweaked very easily. The mechanism is rather fragile.

Fortunately, a 4x4 vehicle has a transfer case and not a CV joint. This allows power and steering without the fragility of front wheel drive vehicles.

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well 4x4's with independent front suspenion do have cv joints. the transfer case is selectible gear reduction system.

outlnder said:

Jojo, where is a CV joint? I know mine has one Universal joint, but I haven't seen a CV joint anywhere.

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outlnder can you post a pic of your front driveline? only one u-joint? 8O doesnt sound right to me. i would like to see what your looking at. 8)

u-joints are a sealed system, you don't need a boot to cover them, just like the drive shaft dosen't have boots cover on them.
a cv-joint is not sealed. hence the reason for the boot. the reason they use a cv joint is because it as a greater articulation then a u-joint. u-joints tend to bind at greater angles.
cv- joints don't. even the ones at the front diffs are cv's. but i've been wrong before, so if anyone got a pic of u-joints on there fronty's front half shaft, i would like to see them.