my z drives perfectly straight, but the front passenger wheel sticks out slightly more than the driver's wheel. when having the wheel on full lock backing out of a driveway, i hear rubbing. it has the stock 91 wheels and the tires all match. thanks for any and all help guys.

 

Do you mean it sticks out more ONLY when fully turned to that side as opposed to being fully turned to the other side? Or does it stick out more even when the wheels are straight?

If its the second, then the obvious next question is "has the car ever been in an accident?"

If its the first question, then the car is turning further to the one side then the other and your tierod lengths are not centered to begin with on your steering shaft. This you would have to take the car for realignment and have them center the steering arm off the box and then adjust the tierod lengths accordingly for proper alignment.

 

it sticks out when the wheels are straight. no the car has not been in an accident.

 

You'll have to check for

1) possible worn a-arm bushings, maybe colasped on the drivers side - new bushings will tend to hold the wheel outward more so when you change them you generally have to have the car realigned

2) maybe either a wheelspacer on one side and not the other, or two different thickness spacers.
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Maybe even a rear wheel used on the front with a spacer thus having a slightly different offset.

3) lastly, you just may be SOL that the car is tweaked and in that event there really isn't anything you can do about it. You start changing the scrub radius distance and cause the car to pull to the side spaced out further. This would happen if you simply add a spacer to one side just to make the wheel to fender gap the same, but makes the scrub radius' different from side to side.

The sole fact that you state the car trackes straight suggests #1 or #3

 

This sounds logical, i dont see any spacers though. is it possible to even mount a rear wheel on the front and visversa??

 

Pop off the center cap and look inside you will see it reads front or rear.

 

yep did that all the wheels are in the correct location

 

accident is the most likely answer ot this

 

it sticks out about a half inch more than the drivers wheel at the MOST. Not to sure that would make the tires rub the fender? maybe something is loose in the well...

 

If it’s otherwise OK, I’d believe a tweaked fender before anything else… park the car on a flat surface, jack it up and put it on jackstands with it level and pull the tires. Drop a plumb bob off of both fenders and measure to the hub face and to the same point on both sides of the k-member (I’d use one of the control arm pivot bolts). I’ll bet that you’ll find out very quickly if it’s a suspension issue (the 2 measurements will be a different ammount off) or a fender/bodywork issue (the 2 measurements will be the same ammount off) that way.

A ½” is a pretty big difference, if it was a suspension or alignement issue (a lot of negative camber can tuck the top of the wheel in more and make it look further in) you should feel and see the problem. Something like a LCA bushing that is worn enough to do this would have to be missing all of it’s rubber. Unless you’re numb and totally don’t know what you’re looking for I suspect that you’ve got a bent fender.

 

I had an issue similar when I had an alignment done. The right side tire seemed to stick out more than the left. I turned out that when they did the alignment the right side had more +camber than the other side. I brought it back and it was spot on according to the specs. I did some measuring on the k-member and inspected the busings and all was well. I ended up doing an alignment on the rack at my work and putting the camber on the bottom end of acceptable on the negative side. Its not so noticeable now. Could be tweaked fender maybe.