Pump It Down....EASY

Ok well I have been messing with the /6 duster steering lately and have replaced idler arm and did a bit of 'toe in' to get things from acting so 'jumpy'. I also went big on the shimmage in the pump. I put in 190 thou in shims in and at low rpm it acted like it was a manual box and then when I got her spinning, it kind of jumped free and was pleasant to drive. So, coming into a turn it was a bit lame because all of a sudden it was tough to steer. Another symptom was as I wound out the engine there was a 'kazzoo' sound that wound up with it, like something was vibrating (maybe the little ball in the valve?). So I took out a shim taking it down to 170 thou and had similar but less symptoms and now am down to 142 thou and there still is the same sypmtoms. So.....I have bled the system in between shim in/out and wonder if I am getting the Kazoo sound from operator install or from the fact there are too many shims in. I am going to go back to the 122 thou shim stack that I had recently and had no 'Kazoo" and tolerable light steering to check my work. Ill check back if anyone is interested.

Has anyone ever installed a strut like they do on 4x's and such to dampen steering? To try to take some of the quickness out of the over-pumped system?

Happy labor day ladies and germs