pHEnomIC

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I have some slop in my steering. I can wiggle the wheel quite a bit back and forth and have no input to the wheels. I appears that the u joint moves fine and the bearings/hubs dont wiggle excessively. What can I do to narrow it down?

Is it the rack or tierod ends?

nascarnate326

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I would put the car on jack stands and then try to move the steering wheel. If it moves like it should then its some kind of bearing.

I taped a hot dog roasting stick to my steering shaft and just moved the steering wheel slightly, verifying that the shaft was doing what the wheel did.

I made the mistake of replacing the rack before I did enough testing, turns out my LT1 ragjoint on the steering shaft was junk. Replaced with solid LS unit and havnt had issues since.

96LT1Z

Rag joint

leadfoot4

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What year is the car? How many miles on it?



Only if it's an LT1 car, I believe. As far as I know, when GM switched to the LS engines, they changed the steering shaft, and the newer one doesn't have the rag joint.

96LT1Z

Only if it's an LT1 car, I believe. As far as I know, when GM switched to the LS engines, they changed the steering shaft, and the newer one doesn't have the rag joint.[/QUOTE]

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pHEnomIC

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Turns out the lower screw on the steering shaft became loose. Threw some loctite and retorqued it, good to go!