VANAGON archives -- July 2009, week 4 (#428)

Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:40:41 -0600 Reply-To: Warren Lail <wklail@GMAIL.COM> Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com> From: Warren Lail <wklail@GMAIL.COM> Subject: steering rack u-joint Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Greetings everyone,

Recently when driving slowly on rough dirt roads I noticed a knocking, rattling sound that I can feel in the steering. Today when I arrived home (and after I washed away tons of mud), I crawled under my bus and it seems that the u-joint that connects to the power steering rack is quite worn and loose. Is this something that generally wears and needs replacing? It looks like it is attached to the steering rack and to a rod running forward by a couple of integrated clamp-like things with bolts through them. Hard to replace? Source for the part?

Thanks,

Warren in Santa Fe 88 Westy

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