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Steering Box knock
- Thread starter Hodee
- Start date
DanR
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Don't rightly know what it is. A guess would be something external from the steering box.
With the front suspended off the ground, Can you turn the wheels right or left by hand and feel or hear anything?
Try from both sides.... Maybe even have someone turn the steering ever so slowly at first then maybe speed up the turns from right or left while listening AND looking at the various joints and other moving components.
Then if nothing is discovered separate the various joints, one at a time and test each one for any abnormal drag/friction of movement.
With the front suspended off the ground, Can you turn the wheels right or left by hand and feel or hear anything?
Try from both sides.... Maybe even have someone turn the steering ever so slowly at first then maybe speed up the turns from right or left while listening AND looking at the various joints and other moving components.
Then if nothing is discovered separate the various joints, one at a time and test each one for any abnormal drag/friction of movement.
DanR
Diamond Level Sponsor
There are several remedies.... Replace your bushing in the crosslink with the replacements available from Sunbeam Specialties or Classic Sunbeam or purchase the ball joints type available form a supplier over in the UK, or purchase one of my crosslinks with the tie rod ends that I designed for the V6 Conversion.