TMJR, I remember my second car had belted tires and when I installed radials it was a pain in the *** to turn with manual steering. I had to have an alignment done because it wanted to go straight. The toe-in and caster had to be adjusted more neutral.

My bird has variable ratio power steering and since the ball joints were replaced it tracks as straight as an arrow. There is no problem with road crown unless I'm on the wrong side of the crown and steering effort is very light. Since the car is only on its second set of tires and only a minimum of maintenance has been done it may be the remnants of the factory alignment. I plan to have an alignment done as soon as I replace the tie rod ends.

What are the drawbacks or benefits to going back to belted or bias tires? It's been a lot of years since I drove on any. Don't radials have a "softer" road feel?