85 Dodge truck Sterring play...

[HOGHEAD]

Hello I have a lot of Jeeps & hang out in the jeep forum ...

Never owned a big Dodge till this weekend ,, Think its a W-150 half ton.. It has a snow plow with it & the guy I bought it from used it 2 yrs to do parking lots,,, The guy he bought it from did his driveway only...

Why would my Sterring wheel have 6 to 8 inchs of play ,,, Its power sterring & runs down the road str-8,,, but it has the 6 to 8 inchs of play in the wheel back & forth ,,,
Its a 318 with automatic & 4 wheel drive,, Stock rims with 30x9.50 tires,,,
93k on the odometer ...

[carnuck]

Could be a number of things. Get someone to move the wheel back and forth while you look to see what moves and feel for "play" in the parts. Especially look for loose nuts on the tierods! (you wouldn't believe how many I've seen that were so loose I could remove them with my fingers!)

[DODGEBOYS]

its probly the steering pot coupler on the end of the steering column shaft / theres a HOWTO fix it on RCC [www.ramchargercentral.com]

[ema]

thanks for the info, the link for the rcc helped my brother a lot.
thread revival is not at all bad because most of the time you get learn from old posts.
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installing those dodge parts that I bought gives me headaches

[DODGEBOYS]

yes you can learn alot from reading old posts