adjusted steering box - removed play in steering
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The adjustment nut is not under the steering box, it's on top. I tightened my '98 up about a month ago and it helped a LOT. Personally, turning the wheels back and forth while not moving did not reveal any "hard spots" but I still overtightened by about a 1/4 turn. Total amount I ended up turning the set screw was about 1 1/2 turns (lefty loosy righty tighty). I had to take it for a drive first to realize it was too tight the first time. I wouldn't call it memory, I would simply call it fighting against whatever you try to do. It doesn't want to turn, it doesn't want to go straight, it doesn't want to return to center on it's own. No "hard spots" though.
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I think the DYI meant you end up having to be under the truck to do it. I don't see how I could have done it from up top. Too long of a reach to try to get the nut loose. It's easiest to lay on your back or on a creeper looking up. I used a regular box wrench (forget exactly what size, but I think it was 15, 16, or 17mm), and I used a regular allen wrench (forget the size on that one too, but I think it was around 5mm). FYI--the allen head was full of gunk when I did this procedure to mine. I had to take a much smaller allen wrench (a paper clip would be fine too) and dig the crap out of there before the allen wrench would actually fit. It was pretty much packed full of crud.
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edit: nvm just saw your thread about this
Last edited by Maxx_Magnum; 08-13-2009 at 09:04 PM.