Just replaced most of the front end on my 08 base trailblazer with 88K miles. All 4 Upper, lower ball joints, both tie rods, struts, both upper control arms, drivers' side lower control arm. Brought it in for an alignment. Steers straight but what I'm finding is I have to overcompensate for each turn I have to make in the steering wheel. Before a slight left turn in the road required the wheel to be at the 10 o'clock position, now I have to turn it almost to 6 am or more for the same action. Same thing is happening with right hand turns. It never did this before, with the older parts. I was told it is now in full GM specs by the alignment shop, and it's fine, but it isn't. Any thoughts? Is there a specific alignment setting that may have caused this? Thanks.

 

Sorry, I have nothing to offer you. Just wanted to say I've never heard of that problem before, and I don't know what would cause it, short of replacing the steering box/rack and pinion with one that has a different ratio. Good luck!

 

No idea...

Wonder if the rag joint went? Or like Tom said, a look into a different gearing steer box would be the best way... I know on the 2nd gen blazer, we were able to use a steering box from a vehicle that had a street performance package installed from factory.

I wonder if the steering box of a ss trailblazer from the same platform as yours would be different... worth a look... depending on what your ideas with the vehicle are...