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Originally Posted by 961kyle
My 94 steering is pretty lose. Bought it from my father in law and he said he had it looked at a while back, they did an alignment and everything else looked ok. Would a steering stabilizer on it help with this and if so how difficult is it to put on? I looked at some at Summit Racing and it said that they attach to stock mounts, do all of them have stock mounts on the vehicle already?
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Replace your Idler arm and Pitman Arm, there the common cause of lose steering. You can use Marine Grease to lube your front end parts, it cost a bit more but last longer and more water resistant then conventional grease. Once the joints have been greased, go for a test drive and see if the steering has gotten better. If it has then it's going to be a bad steering box or you may get away with adjusting it.
Normally I don't recommend adjusting the steering box, but since there are
more and more Internet recommendations, which are many times wrong. This is way to easy to ruin one by over tightening....a looong time ago a buddy saw me and copied to ruin his box by over tightening.
Best to only adjust one hex flat at a time. The adjustment is a set screw
with a hex socket. A jam nut holds it. (on top of the box) and how I normally adjust it. Again, adjust one hex flat at a time, drive around the block and recheck. Of course after making sure the steering linkage is in good order.
Have a long extension with a crows foot for the jam nut. Other socket wrench
has a allen wrench. Note that it is at an angle and a U-Joint might be
needed if the radiator is in the way. My crows foot kit has built in U-Joints. 3/8th jam nut with a 3/16th allen keyed set screw in to the steering box. Hold the jam nut while turning the set screw with the allen key tighten the allen screw snug (not tight) then back off an 1/8 of a turn. Then hold the set screw while tightening the jam nut, then go for a test drive around the block.
02-03-2010, 01:53 PM
1994 Suburban Steering
