Front end steering.

[cayce_brunswick-]

I lowered my truck all the way around and just recently took it to the shop for an alignment. I got it home and didn't notice any problems. (But it's only a few blocks). I got it home and immediately started working on replacing the rag joint and cleaning up the steering column. I took the entire column apart...from the steering wheel down. Cleaned it replaced rag joint and a few other things. Now I'm having an impossible time. I put column all back together but now it only turns one full turn left and two turns right. (From center) Am I missing something? Is it in the pitman arm? From lowering it? My column? I just need some advise. Thanks!

[luvbowties]

Originally Posted by cayce_brunswick-

I lowered my truck all the way around and just recently took it to the shop for an alignment. I got it home and didn't notice any problems. (But it's only a few blocks). I got it home and immediately started working on replacing the rag joint and cleaning up the steering column. I took the entire column apart...from the steering wheel down. Cleaned it replaced rag joint and a few other things. Now I'm having an impossible time. I put column all back together but now it only turns one full turn left and two turns right. (From center) Am I missing something? Is it in the pitman arm? From lowering it? My column? I just need some advise. Thanks!

Did it steer normally, left & right, before alignment? Did it steer normally on the way home from the alignment shop, before you began disassembly & cleaning of column guts?

Did you add ps to the truck, or did it come to you already with ps? What did you replace, other than the rag joint?

How far, like measured on a watch or clock-face, does the left/driver tire move from limit-to-limit?(like from 11 o'clock to 2 o'clock? 2 o'clock to 4 o'clock?, etc.) How about the right/passenger tire?(On pass. tire, one limit may not be reachable if tire hits frame, with movement really remaining, but unusable in the steering box/linkage--lemme know).
Sam

[JointTech]

make sure the drag link is nuts out.