slim616
05-20-2010, 04:50 PM
ill give the back story on my 06, 6.0, 350. The truck has never had tight steering to begin with but it seems to have gotten a lot worse. during the winter i had a plow hit the front tire pretty good. I had no noticeable problems other then the truck pulling a little to one side which i figured was from being out of alignment from the hit. No biggie ill just fix that when i go to get new tires in a month or so. So a few months go by and i get the death wabble and the tires are pretty much finished. Also i noticed the trucks steering would get loose in the steering wheel on sharper turns.
So I go down to get new tires and a alignment figuring it would fix everything. After the alignment and tires the truck stop pulling and now the loose steering is really noticeable since the truck doesn't pull.
First i can rock the steering wheel back and forth by almost a hour before the tires react if you think of it as a clock. (i'm guessing the steering box needs adjustment) Secondly which i cant figure out, is when I go around sharp winding turns a little to fast the damn thing will all of a sudden pull even harder in the direction of the turn. Then if i steer a little the other way it will pull hard in the other direction. This will go on till i stop the truck and rock the steering wheel back and forth really fast then for some reason its fine till the next time i take a turn to fast.
i thought maybe the TRE's were bad but they seem not to have to much play in them. But what i did notice was that when i rocked the tires back and forth with the steering wheel I could feel a slight click in the pitman arm. Now i'm wandering if maybe the steering box got messed up with that hit. if so could it cause that odd ass wondering in sharp curves in the road? Which now Ive gotten to the point I can tell you exactly when its about to do it and slow down to avoid it from happening. Which sucks because my shop sits on a winding road were it gos from hard left curve rite into a hard right curve and so on for almost seven miles.
So I go down to get new tires and a alignment figuring it would fix everything. After the alignment and tires the truck stop pulling and now the loose steering is really noticeable since the truck doesn't pull.
First i can rock the steering wheel back and forth by almost a hour before the tires react if you think of it as a clock. (i'm guessing the steering box needs adjustment) Secondly which i cant figure out, is when I go around sharp winding turns a little to fast the damn thing will all of a sudden pull even harder in the direction of the turn. Then if i steer a little the other way it will pull hard in the other direction. This will go on till i stop the truck and rock the steering wheel back and forth really fast then for some reason its fine till the next time i take a turn to fast.
i thought maybe the TRE's were bad but they seem not to have to much play in them. But what i did notice was that when i rocked the tires back and forth with the steering wheel I could feel a slight click in the pitman arm. Now i'm wandering if maybe the steering box got messed up with that hit. if so could it cause that odd ass wondering in sharp curves in the road? Which now Ive gotten to the point I can tell you exactly when its about to do it and slow down to avoid it from happening. Which sucks because my shop sits on a winding road were it gos from hard left curve rite into a hard right curve and so on for almost seven miles.