Tipped Apex over, now steering sloppy

[Srx700pilot98]

well, just like it says. My son tipped my 07 Apex over on a steep cliff. I had to tie a strap on to the A Arm and pull it with my truck to tip it back over and pull it about 4 feet sideways to keep it from going over the cliff. Now the steering is extremely sloppy. Before that happened it was nice and tight. What would have caused that just from tipping it back over. I’m just not sure what I could have done just by pulling it back over. I don’t have it in the shop yet.

 

[steiner]

You may have broke the bulkhead where the A arms attached while where pulling it with your truck.

 

[maim]

x2 on what steiner said. you need to pull the air box and all the pannels off and have a good look at all the mounting points for the steering. my brother lost one of the idler arm bolts on his 04 rx and it made quite a bit of play in the steering before i found and fixed it.

 

[biffdotorg]

SRX700pilot, what did you figure out on your Apex.

A buddy rolled my XTX a while back and it got sloppy after that. I have seen others replace the "bushings" which are blocks in the steering linkage. And at over 10,300 miles, they were probably getting pretty worn either way.

I am going to keep searching, I just wanted to know what you found. TY