Originally Posted by
InspGadgt
Exactly...Bump steer is caused by differences in suspension angles. Most likely what was causing your car to handle strangely due to the ball being too tight is that a pivot ball that doesn't move smoothly will cause the king pin to bind so you will either not get full suspension compress, suspension will not fully release, or the suspension will move slower than it should due to the increased friction between the pivot ball and the king pin.
Yes, you are both correct with identifying what bump steer looks like.
However, in the video I purposely avoided mentioning this bump steer (height of the steering links), because it wasn't the steering links causing the bump steer in the video. The main reason for the video was to show the importance of why the lower and upper suspension balls should be bind free.
I do appreciate you pointing this out bdmpastx and InspGagt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNTY1n5jdTY
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