I have a 1995 Ram 5.2 and when im at low speeds me steering wheel is really loose and I can shake it back and forth. It dosent seem right to me im taking it to a shop, but i want to see if anyone know what it could be so I dont get screwed over paying for somthing I dont need. But yeah when im at low speeds its very loose and and shake it and the truck dosent move till I turn it and put a little force behind it.

-Justin

 

You have steering slop...just like the majority of 2nd gen Ram owners. You have to figure out where the play is in your steering. Usually it's in the trackbar or the steering box, but it could be tie rod ends or the intermediate shaft. It could be all of the above.

 

I agree, i had the slop, replaced track bar-draglink-and adjusted the steering box-finally got alot out of it, these beasts seem to wanna wander by nature

 

HAHA yeah well thanks for the help.....

 

I have slop too Just have to track it down

 

I would try the track bar first, then draglink that is attached to the pitman arm, have someone move steering wheel slowly while your under front end see if joints move and wheels dont, go slow looking at every ball joint and both ends of the trackbar.

After I replaced everything that was worn I adjusted my steering box, got a total of six turns out of it, using a wrench the fits the nut on the top of gearbox and an allen that fits the adjustment screw in the center of the nut loosen the nut but keep allen immobile, loosen nut so you can get a few good turns out of the allen screw, when nut is loose then turn the allen wrench clockwise to tighten the allen head down, snug it then back off a half of turn. then holding the allen immobile, tighten the nut back down, whole trick is to only let one thing move at once. hope this helps