hamilton71801

I've been living with my truck wandering all over the road for 5 yrs now and I finally broke down and adjusted the box...wow what a difference. It was 1/2 turn to snug so I split the difference and went with the recommended 1/4 turn and now she's straight and true. I was even getting feedback through the steering wheel but now that's gone and its like I have a new truck again. This the first time I've adjusted it and she's got 235K on her.

Pwr steering pump & starter rebuild this weekend and then I'm through wrenching for a while...I hope.

rockcrawler304

I bet you wish you had done it 5 years ago now!!

JoeCanuck

What exactly did you snug?

hamilton71801

Top of the box. My steering wheel was already true so I didn't mess with the other adjustment...maybe I should have. I really didn't snug it up, I just tightened it until I felt resistance and then I backed it off 1/4. If this buys me some more mileage out of her I'll be tickled pink.

infidel

Instructions> http://dodgeram.info/tsb/1997/19-10-97.htm

JoeCanuck

I'll give it a try.

Silver R/T

cool, might give it a try

rustydeeretech

i just finished rebuilding my steering gear box power steering pump and vac pump while i was there and man it just goes strait and no play in the wheel i did find out the my truck has a gear box out of a 1996 gmc 3500 i found that out the hard way waited 3 days to get the seal kit and found nothing fit luckly i saw a gm# on it and was able to get what i needed

mstep3

is this procedure the same to recenter a steering box on an 02'?