So here's the deal: I just got back from my dad's house. We replaced my brake pads and my drivers side CV shaft (boot was torn). We obviously had to remove the bolts for the lower ball joint, tie rod, and upper ball joint to get the shaft out. After re-lubricated every dust cover, I road tested my car after putting everything together. Everything seemed perfect and I continued to make the 200 mile drive home.

When getting to work today, I hit a small bump in the road and noticed that my steering wheel was "chunking" to the left. I like to describe it as a clock ticking counter clock-wise. I checked every nut on the tierod and ball joint, everything tight. I just don't know what it could be. Any ideas of what to check?

Also...when going in reverse the wheel does the same thing, but to the right. Also it seems to not have the issue when traveling at highway speeds, but rather lower speeds under 20mph.

 

I took a video of the car jacked up and my wife turning the wheel. I shot the upper ball joint, lower ball joint, and tie rod. When playing with the tire lifted off the ground I noticed no extra "play" in the tie rod or no funny noises. I think I'm just going to take it to my local Acura guy to have a proper alignment done.

 

get a prybar in there for leverage and see if the upper or lower ball joint have play.

 

THIS WHOLE TIME....I neglected to look at my tire. It has a "lump". Time to buy some new Falkens

 

I think disappointed Picard says it all. Lol

 

You have no idea. I guess it was just coincidence that it happened around the same time of replacing the CV shaft I just assumed it was something that I did. Oh well...I already ordered two replacement tires and I'm going to have them installed on Friday.