Manual Steering Adjustment

Yes, I have the service manual for my car. I opened the manual again and read what your talking about. It does spin freely thru the high spot, but it tightens up about 1 turn past the high spot for a partial turn, then gets free again.

Yes, it actually spun way to easy in my opinion prior to me opening it up and cleaning everything. Which I believe is the slop in the steering that I felt. I bet it was about a 1/4 turn of the wheel before the car would respond.

Yes, I had a couple of threads showing initially and after I made the adjustment then it was flush.

I also made these adjustments with the box in the car, Im going to take it back out tomorrow and open it back up again. This time I'll make all my adjustments on the bench. I think I will get a better feel for the adjustments on a bench instead of under the car.