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Symptoms of worn steering rack? 200 1984

posted by  someone claiming to be John McPhail (who forgot his password) on  Sun Jun 1 16:10 CST 2014 [RELATED]

Hi,

I recently replaced all of the components in the front end of my '84 242. New control arm bushings, new tie rod ends, new ball joints, new struts. All of the old parts had over 100k on them (car has 350k miles on it) so I don't feel that I wasted my time or money, but the symptoms that I had before doing the work persist, and now I wonder if the steering rack is bad.

Driving down the road, there is a "wobble" in the steering wheel. The wheel moves from center to the right and back to center again. Wash, rinse, repeat. With this the car pulls violently to the right and there is a knocking sound. It feels like the right front wheel is about to come off the car. (I rotated the tires thinking that perhaps one of the rims was not true - didn't help).

Could anything else cause this, or am I looking at replacing the rack?

Thanks,
John





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