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<blockquote data-quote="Gibby1" data-source="post: 1293995" data-attributes="member: 15983"><p>So, I tackled my steering problem of not being able to turn fully to the right. I found a bump stop that was hitting and was bent. I took this out but it still didn't turn any farther. When turning to the right, I hit a hard stop, like the steering box hit it's lock, but when turning to the left I get a squishy stop, like something was binding, probably the knuckles at the end of their range.</p><p></p><p>I thought that perhaps the pitman arm had slipped on the output shaft on the steering box. I pulled that off and the threads all looked fine. The TRI ball going was REALLY sloppy connecting the drag link to the pitman arm but that didn't seem enough to cause the loss of travel, particularly when it affected only one direction.</p><p></p><p>So with the drag link disconnected from the pitman arm, I turn the wheel lock to lock. The pitman arm moved normally but I found it strange the the wheels didn't turn. Thinking that perhaps the PS pump needed to be running for the RAM to work, so I fired up the motor. However, still no movement in the tires when I turned from lock to lock. I would be expecting the RAM to turn the wheels with the engine running even though the drag link was disconnected from the pitman arm, because the RAM was still attached.</p><p></p><p>Thoughts, comments, suggestions?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gibby1, post: 1293995, member: 15983"] So, I tackled my steering problem of not being able to turn fully to the right. I found a bump stop that was hitting and was bent. I took this out but it still didn't turn any farther. When turning to the right, I hit a hard stop, like the steering box hit it's lock, but when turning to the left I get a squishy stop, like something was binding, probably the knuckles at the end of their range. I thought that perhaps the pitman arm had slipped on the output shaft on the steering box. I pulled that off and the threads all looked fine. The TRI ball going was REALLY sloppy connecting the drag link to the pitman arm but that didn't seem enough to cause the loss of travel, particularly when it affected only one direction. So with the drag link disconnected from the pitman arm, I turn the wheel lock to lock. The pitman arm moved normally but I found it strange the the wheels didn't turn. Thinking that perhaps the PS pump needed to be running for the RAM to work, so I fired up the motor. However, still no movement in the tires when I turned from lock to lock. I would be expecting the RAM to turn the wheels with the engine running even though the drag link was disconnected from the pitman arm, because the RAM was still attached. Thoughts, comments, suggestions? [/QUOTE]
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