Matt16

It wouldn't be the wheel bearing, if they were that week, they would shatter on speed bump. You suspension/ steering isn't meant for large impacts from the front of the tire. The bit the most vulnerable to frontal impact I would think would be the tie rod. Their pretty exposed. I could have a hard time believing the spindle bent, but hey, you never know.

Let us know what the problem is...for trivia if nothing else.

Matt16

I'm flattered.

Elton

lmao never did see that deer come down

Matt16

Kind of wonder if the driver ever even saw it. Looks to me like it went into the trees.

Yotapowa

how do you properly put those quotes in your sig?? You will notice in my sig I have to just write who said it

Matt16

You click QUOTE from the bottom right of the person-who-you-want-to-quote's box, the copy & paste the stuff that looks like this:

[QUOTE.=Yotapowa;50979861]how do you properly put those quotes in your sig?? You will notice in my sig I have to just write who said it[/QUOTE.]

91Toyota

Not surprising it cut the deer in half at all. Happens on motorcycles quite frequently.

Yotapowa

Awesome, thanks. Hope you dont mind me quoting you skinsfan6

Skinsfan6

I'm pretty sure the tie rod or some part of the steering linkage is bent, but how would that give me negative camber? I understand the toe out. I just don't understand where this negative camber is coming from. I jacked up that one wheel before school this morning and spun it. It turned over fine and didn't appear to be bent. The ball joints look fine and everything on the hub/spindle side appears to be fine. And I did notice some fender damage. There are two nice ripples behind the tire almost into the door. I don't know how that part of the fender got hit.

On my way to school I stopped and examined the site again. I found the rest of the deer. It turns out I just ripped the butt end off behind the rear legs. The bones were exposed and sticking out. I was pretty impressed. There are still incredible amounts of blood on the road, and you can see the tracks where I was forced almost into the ditch. The deer jumped out from the right and hit my right front fender. I found it's butt end about 20 feet past the hit in the ditch on the right. But the deer I found about 50 feet past where I hit it in the LEFT ditch. And it was completely turned around. It was laying on its side, head facing the road, with the side I didn't hit facing up. It's front left leg (the side I hit) was dangling by a thread of flesh where it meets the body.

I don't mind yotapowa...I feel so accomplished.

Matt16

I'm perplexed... all I can think is that you bent the frame or a-arm. I'm no expert though, take it to the alignment shop.

scuba

While were on the deer subject...
You sure the deer you hit didnt want revenge....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD5zjUbWpXY

InternetRoadkill

Wild guess, but I'm thinking that since you had a heavy-duty bumper, the frame ended up taking the brunt of the damage. You may want to take it to a body shop and have them check it for straightness.

Skinsfan6

I know the frame is alright. You can see very obviously where the top tube of my bumper pushed back in relation the the trail gear winch mount it's welded to. I understand where you're coming from, but really the upper tube on my bumper only pushed the deer down into my tire. My tire took all of the hit.

Skinsfan6

I'm trying to stay away from shops right now. I'm not filing with the insurance, and I don't have much money to be spending on shop visits. And I'm going to go ahead and put on my 4" ifs lift before I get it realigned. So I'm trying to diagnose as much as I can myself.

I'm thinking that maybe the part of the lower or even upper a-arm that the ball joint attaches to may have been bent back and swung around a little (a few degrees), and that may be the cause of the camber issue. The toe out I'm sure is from my bent steering linkage. I have a buddy with a parts yota that I can get the linkage off of cheap or free.

And I bought my ifs lift used, and it came with the previous owner's lower a-arms and brackets already bolts together. I'll be using those instead of mine, so that may correct the camber problem. If not the a-arm ball joint mounts, I believe the spindle where the ball joints mount may be tweaked.

2DoorRunner

a couple years back i was with my friends brother when we hit an elk, his truck was better about $5000 worth of repairs later.

hillbillydeelux

any pic of the carnage?

Matt16

A large-ish bird flew into my windshield last night. I was doing 100km/h (60mph). Didn't crack the glass or anything.

Funny part was that I was just thinking that I hadn't killed an animal all year when the bird kamakazied the windshield. I fish and I don't slow for small wildlife- so usually I rack up quite the butchers's bill, but this year, I didn't fish for "keepers" much and didn't run anything don't... until the bird.

Skinsfan6

Ha. Congratulations on your lack of damage. I have to borrow my dad's camera. He leaves for work when its dark and comes back when it's dark so I have to borrow it and take pictures tomorrow.

I looked at it more today and while it's hard to tell if anything is bent, I really think the lower a-arm balljoint mount got tweaked. I think I'm just gonna go ahead and put my lift on with my new used lower a-arms and see what happens.

Matt16

What was the verdict on this? What was the damage which caused alignment problems?