Overlooked The Obvious...

[EdsTowing]

Had a Uhaul call the other night. Said that the front end alignment was out?

 

I thought, how am I supposed to fix that on the road?

 

But it was close to the shop, at the end of the day, and on my way home so... I pulled on scene and the 1st thing I see is the front tire was scuffed hard. I figured I found the issue and immediately checked the steering wheel & crawled around the ground looking for bent stuff....

 

 

Nothing obvious... but I did find that someone put an adjustable ball joint in & had the camber set wrong... the guy was complaining that the wheel was turned a 1/4 turn to the right to go down the road strait?

 

There had to be something else... Then as I get on me knees to get off the ground, I notice something as I looked down the side of the truck...

 

 

I can see the tire tread hanging out past the body.... Duh....LoL They hit a curb or something & broke the center bolt out of the spring. I got a case of "tunnel vision" as soon as I seen the marks on the sidewall of the steer tire...

 

 

So I towed it back to the shop for repairs. You'd think the guy would of said something about the view out the rear view mirror?....