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03-12-2013, 04:27 PM
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All in all for a truck that's got almost 200k on it it's been a pretty decent truck for the most part considering that it does have one of the most hated motors ever produced.
03-12-2013, 04:28 PM
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sweet, my splash guards from my 06 fit my new 12. I'm so excited. It's the little things that count fellas.
On a side note I finally got an estimate on my daily driver. 5000 and counting. Oh forgot to mention I had another car pull out in front of me last tuesday. Basically the same scenario that totaled my other dd last year at this time.
On a side note I finally got an estimate on my daily driver. 5000 and counting. Oh forgot to mention I had another car pull out in front of me last tuesday. Basically the same scenario that totaled my other dd last year at this time.
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I never understood it either.....
03-12-2013, 05:22 PM
Basically the steering has a few weird symptoms. When I first got the truck back in '09, it had 36k on her. Currently approaching 89k. From the start, when I first start the truck, there is a movment from the shaft and the headlights dim if they are on. I can feel it, it's like a slip. Then it's fine. Last winter, I was coming home from work and suddenly the steering had a weird grinding feeling. I don't know how to rescribe it. You can't hear it, but something it rubbing at certain parts of the steering wheel rotation. From that random one night, it's done it every day since I've driven the truck. After a while I noticed the steering get worse. I thought it might be the shaft, had that replaced. Nope, wasn't it. All the work I've had done has fixed small things, but the damn steering still has feedback/movement over bumps and is not fluid in movement. It doesn't easily straighten when I pull into the driveway either. If I let go of the wheel, it straightens out a bit, stops, straightens out a bit, then stays ****ed to the side. On the highway, I can feel the shaft turning back and forth against the steering wheel and it makes it hard to keep the truck dead straight. People don't seem to get that I've owned the truck since 36k and have put 50k+ on it and it never did it up until last year. Something HAS to have worn out or is wearing out. The tech couldn't find anything but if you jerk the wheel back and forth you hear banging and I can grab the shaft near the spline that enters the rack and it dulls the sound. Also it sounds like it is putting some strain on the PS pump when I make certain rotations with the wheel. To me, it can't be anything else other than the rack. The bj helped on the highway, but the other symptoms I listed are still there. What do you guys think?
Parts replaced:
Shocks all around
Inner and outer tie rods
Passenger side upper and lower bj's with bushings (upper control arm)
Drivers side lower bj
Sway bar end links
Sway bushings
Intermediate steering shaft
Lowering shackles
I've also replaced all fluids including PS fluid - I figured I'd change it to be safe
Forget that, only had 50,000 miles or so. Flushed the fluid, I didn't think it was that , but did it anyway. Long story short, everything checked out. Turned out to be the universal was binding. Strange deal. Lubing it up didn't help, not at first. Using brake cleaner and compressed air, I cleaned the snot out of it. Then using Silicon Grease and compressed air again, I forced the grease into the knuckle or UV. Worked it in best I could. Problem solved then and still is.
Not saying it's your problem, - you may have already replaced it, I can't tell. It was mine. When I investigated it on the net, - everyone was doing as you did. But yea, you guys could have a different issue all together.
03-12-2013, 07:11 PM
Yea, I think that's the intermediate shaft there. I believe it connects to the column shaft. Well it the Steering Column Shaft or whatnot, I can't remember how they have it labeled. It's the universal you see immediately after opening the hood looking in that area. Maybe that is the Intermediate then ehh? Well, you posted above, you have replaced that anyway correct?
03-12-2013, 07:17 PM