Steering Column Popping...

70DusterBob said

I just got my car running again and now the steering column is popping sort of. It did sit for 6 months before that, but now the steering column is like popping. That is the best word I can use describe the noise, but when you turn the steering wheel either direction quickly, it kind of pops. It is a standard steering column with three in the tree, but now it is in an automatic, so all that is disconnected.

I don't know if it is safe to drive, but I have to drive it Monday, kinda critical that I make a 140 mile drive mostly highway.

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Forgot to mention the steering column is out of a 72 Dart Swinger, and it was designed for power steering. Now that I have thought about it some, I had the power steering pump belt disconnected and turned the wheel to move the car around a parking lot, nothing like a long time at all, and then once I hooked it back up this noise started.

I looked under the dash but there is nothing to see but a tube. It doesn't sound like its coming from the u-joints in front of the firewall, it's in the column, sounds like between the wheel and the fire wall, but I don't know if that's possible.