one last question about play in the wheel

wjajr said

If you have a wee bit of looseness in each ball joint, tie rod end, steering box, and idler arm it all adds up to a lot of looseness or play that one can feel in the steering wheel. Also I discovered a lot of play being introduced from the steering coupler connecting steering shaft to steering gear’s guts not being assembled correctly; another place to look at.

If one of these Chrysler steering gears has over 70 k miles on it probably needs adjusting, and or rebuilding.

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X2 I also recently replaced my gearbox & rebuilt the coupler, both of which were trashed. It helped a lot, but the steering's still a bit loose. Just got new tie rods this week that I need to install. The originals were in bad shape. Hopefully that will do the trick.

Pat