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70amxvegas
AMC Addicted Joined: Apr/26/2009 Location: Lost Wages Status: Offline Points: 1791 |
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Posted: Mar/23/2020 at 10:09pm |
Just starting to look for issues why.The jeep drives straight with no pull at all. but while driving the steering wheel has 2 to 3 inchs of loose slop .Any ides where to check first ?
258 three speed all stock.
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tufcj
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Manual or power steering? You can adjust a manual box some, but with that much slop it's probably just worn out. Since the steering is GM/Saginaw, steering boxes are easy to source. Bob tufcj
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Heavy 488
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Not hard to figure out. Get a second person to rock the steering wheel. Crawl under and see what is and isn't moving.
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Nor Cal CJ5
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I have slop in my steering just as you describe. Best first scenario would be to look like Heavy 488 describes. But you can grab the steering shaft from the engine compartment & turn and look at the components at the same time.
The manual steering is pretty simple (if this is your case), a loose connection at the firewall can provide slop, the steering shaft is long and there are with unions that go bad, but most likely it is the gear box that is worn out. There are idler arms and links that can be effected as well but for 2-3 inches of steering wheel movement, the weak spot is the gear box.
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1972 CJ5 304 2 barrel 3 speed
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70amxvegas
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I did get under the jeep and everything looks good and tight ,I adjusted the gear box by getting loose a lock nut on top of the box and screwed in the screw on top . I did this a few times was not sure how far to adjust this but it took up 90% of the slop. Steers great now
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Scrambler 401
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Try adjusting the Allen head on top of steering gear box turning in to tighten if no help box is shot I used a new one from a 1996 hummer h1 quicker turning ratio love it
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