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 Posted: Sun Apr 12th, 2020 04:28 pm
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VelociRanger
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 So I did the rack and pinion on Friday, drove it a little and it seemed fine. Now, today I drove to Walmart for milk and there's a lot of feedback in the steering wheel. Meaning that if one side of the truck goes into a low spot on the road it pulls me into it a little bit, and I can feel it in the wheel. I also noticed that while turning into the Walmart parking lot (it's concrete and not asphalt) that it sounded like my front tires chirped a little while doing a sharp, low speed turn. I couldn't get it to do it again, so it may have been someone else's vehicle. But, I got home and jacked on wheel up, and well this is what I noticed....




Now, the steering wheel isn't locked in the truck and so I was able to jack one wheel up and move both with somewhat light force. Is this normal and a sign of a good rack, or did I mess something up during install? Afterward I went and locked the steering wheel and there is no play in any of the balljoints whatsoever, and the wheels didn't move. The truck still tracks straight as a rail. Maybe the toe is out of alignment now? I counted the turns on both tie rod ends (twice actually, just to double check) and so it shouldn't have changed much if at all. Thanks for the help so far, and apologies if I'm keeping a thread going on for too long.



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