slid on the Ice and bit the curb, steering components Options

[VavAlephVav]

So we had some super slick ice the other morning, I was zippin down the interstate at 80mph , like I normally do, then I got up to a point where they had both dirrections of the highway closed. At that point I decided I was gonna call the boss and tell him I'm turning around and going home.
then I got off the highway and took a shortcut through the parking lot of the abandoned supermarket, and I suddenly realized they had not treated this parking lot and I was only doing about 10 mph when I suddenly slid sideways into the curb. the front rim took most of the hit pretty much square on from the drivers side.
Its been too cold to take the wheel off and get a good look at it, but now my steering wheel is a bit more crooked than it was, and it makes some noise when driving like the CV joint.

So what are the main components you think would have taken the most damage? Iv put it on a jack and jiggled the wheel so I don't think the wheel bearing is bad. if I rotate the wheel by hand with it in neutral it feels just like the other side, but if I spin the wheel while its in gear I feel a little clunk, clunk on that side. but the CV may have been bad in the first place, now realy bad.
But do you think It may have bent one of the tie-rodds? hopefully not something in the racknpinion

[Langing]

In your Jan 5 description of the work you and your friend did to the front wheel of your Celica, the first picture shows the steering knuckle. Would you do me a favor and ask your friend how I might bend those two 'ears' that are part of the knuckle. I've been renovating all the brake parts of my 94 Celica and ran into a problem where the caliper mounting bracket is bolted to the right side knuckle, namely those two ears. They are slightly bent outward and I want to take a sledge hammer and bang them back into alignment.

But I thought, isn't the knuckle a cast iron part? And isn't cast iron a rather fragile type of metal? If I took a sledge to those ears might I not break them off?

I am looking for a way to "adjust" these ears just a bit (about 2 and 3 32nds of an inch further away from the rotor) so the caliper mounting bracket will stop scratching the metal of the rotor. The left side ears are both 21/32 of an inch from the rotor, whereas the lower right side is 18/32 of an inch, and that difference is huge when it comes to aligning the mounting bracket over the rotor. TX