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My steering is super screwed up. I had to drive 45 minutes on the highway to take an exam with while it was pretty windy. My jeep got to the point of being almost uncontrollable. I have a ton of play in my steering wheel (mainly to the left). I tightened my steering box to rule things out, and I don't believe that's it. I just installed a 4 inch RC lift, with a new steering stabilizer, and pitman arm. I'm assuming it's my tie rod ends and possibly my ball joints. Could this cause that much play in my steering? I can't express enough how scary the situation was, and I ended up going 50 in the slow lane. The unfortunate part is, I have to drive 45 minutes back home tomorrow...
I'm writing this to get your opinions on what else it could be. I want to make sure the shop gets it right the first time. This has to be fixed, because I'll be driving back from my parents house to my place in cleveland a couple times next week. The tie rod ends and ball joints are original with 56k miles on them. They have been greased recently, but I'm afraid the previous owner never took care of them. Part of me wants to say it's something else too, because I've never seen this much slop in a steering wheel before from bad tie rod ends. It was absolutely terrifying.
Oh, one more thing. I don't have the track bar up front, but the one in the rear is still in. I haven't had time to take out the rear one. It's pretty rusted in there, so it will have to take some extra persuasion.
Please help!
My steering is super screwed up. I had to drive 45 minutes on the highway to take an exam with while it was pretty windy. My jeep got to the point of being almost uncontrollable. I have a ton of play in my steering wheel (mainly to the left). I tightened my steering box to rule things out, and I don't believe that's it. I just installed a 4 inch RC lift, with a new steering stabilizer, and pitman arm. I'm assuming it's my tie rod ends and possibly my ball joints. Could this cause that much play in my steering? I can't express enough how scary the situation was, and I ended up going 50 in the slow lane. The unfortunate part is, I have to drive 45 minutes back home tomorrow...
I'm writing this to get your opinions on what else it could be. I want to make sure the shop gets it right the first time. This has to be fixed, because I'll be driving back from my parents house to my place in cleveland a couple times next week. The tie rod ends and ball joints are original with 56k miles on them. They have been greased recently, but I'm afraid the previous owner never took care of them. Part of me wants to say it's something else too, because I've never seen this much slop in a steering wheel before from bad tie rod ends. It was absolutely terrifying.
Oh, one more thing. I don't have the track bar up front, but the one in the rear is still in. I haven't had time to take out the rear one. It's pretty rusted in there, so it will have to take some extra persuasion.
Please help!