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Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Buffalo, NY
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Too much play in steering wheel ?
I have been driving this truck for about a year and I think that I have been getting more and more play in my steering wheel. I have 3/4 ton 4x4 with power steering. The steering wheel can be turned at least 1/4 turn without any reaction, and i think its getting worse. Any ideas?
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: pleasanton, CA
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this is a really dumb idea, buy maybe youve been losing some fluid this whole time? i dont know if it would cause it, but it could be
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Sweden
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My guess is the coupler that is used to connect the steering column shaft to the steering gearbox.
It happend to me on a Camaro.
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its all about the +6 inches
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Hilliard Ohio
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Lay under the truck, and have an assistand turn the wheel back and forth in the slop zone. (engine off) and see if y you can locate the slop. Should be easy to find, either a joint will be flexing, or there will be a lot of input to the gear box, and hardly any movement coming out of it.
Power steering fluid would not cause this condition. |
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Location: Jefferson State
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What Andy said - and if it's in the box, it should be replaced - though you might be able to buy some time by tightening the adjuster on the box.
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