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The problem is that I am exhausted all means to loosen the nut to adjust the play, even used commercial air tools, crow bars for leverage and still will not loosen the nut any ideas?
Thank you Mr. DIYer. You explainable couldn't have been any better. You did everything slowly and explained everything in simple terms. My wife adjusted her steering this weekend. As I got home, I seen her under the hood. Wondering WTH she was possibly doing I looked. She said she adjusted her steering because it didn't move the wheels as fast as she felt comfortable with. I had to see what she did because shes never done anything other than add fluids or aired up tires. She watches me work on the 78 Silverado sometimes and asks questions because shes interested in it and likes me all dirty n smelling like car she says😏 But getting back to the story, I asked where she learned this and she showed me yer video. Great work Amigo. Keep up the good work and new videos. I'm definitely gonna follow yer lessons. Or at least she will if I'm not around to answer questions. Cheers!
Thank you so much. Comments such as yours is what leads me to aspire to make videos that as much as possible is as simple yet as compressive and direct to the point to the given topic. Im really glad that there are people out there that finds my videos helpful. And a woman at that. Sounds like you and your wife have a very nice relationship. Not a lot of couples share the same interest especially when it comes to mechanical stuffs which is generally viewed as a "guy thing". Lucky you, Kudos to both of you.
I knew how to do it on my Landy but was never sure how the steering box adjustment worked. Thank you for letting me go to bed a little less uneducated tonight than yesterday. Well explained. Kind regards. Andreas
Note that if it is too tight, it will not return to center after a turn but will keep turning. This can cause a crash if you expected it to return on its own.
It will feel great when you tighten too much in the driveway but will feel wonky (and scary) when you start driving. The car reacts differently than what you expect after turning the wheel.
Thank you for a very informative video. I watched other videos and they did not. mention unlocking your steering wheel ! Seems like an important point to me. Also moving the Adjustment incrementally seemed also important. Thanks again
Good video but reason for play some internals may be worn. Proper adjustment is done off vehicle, there are 2 adjustments, both done in different locations on gear, both done with torque wrench, bearing pre-load is one and the adjustment in this video, which is over center adjustment, keeps gear tighter when tires are pointed down road to prevent wandering. These gears usually last a long time, when they get sloppy I would pull gear, tear it down, inspect for wear/ damage and install new seals and adjust on bench to proper pre-loads.
Thank you that was really helpful. But what else it can cause the play? And that was the best explanation I found really good teacher. Keep up the good work and keep posting videos!
Very good explanation. Even works on chevy's it's looks similar and the technique is the same.i suggest to lift the front wheels while the adjustment.thank you! Best regards from Austria
I once got a steering box from salvage yard and put it in my car and when I started engine the wheel would automatically turn to the right . I drove it for awhile and when I needed to make right hand turn I just let go of steering wheel lol . I finally took the box apart and the little piston had a burr on it so I sanded it down and it worked fine afterwards .
Do you need an alignment after this? My truck now pulls to the right a lot more than it did. The adjustment did fix about 80% of the looseness in the steering wheel at center from left to right.
