ok...I am still working on steering issues, have not got back to the alignment yet. Since I had that alignment done, there is a clunk and bang coming from the rear pass tire....it was not there before the alignment....I am jumping to the conclusion that the bushing back there is gone and it now bangs because the rear toe isn't so far out of whack....have rear tires with lots of toe would keep pressure on the bushings, now they aren't so out of toe.....trailing arm is free to clunk and bang.

There is nothing else back there that can be making that noise that I can see, but by eye the bushings look ok. I am going to change them and see if the noise disappears.....those look like the cat's meow, just wanted to check with you to see if you still think they would be ok to use. Get that done..then back to the alignment !