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Yeah that's it, but the problem was on the other end. If you reach up under the dash and grab the intermediate steering shaft right as it comes out of the green or white plastic bearing and shake it, you'll be able to hear the rattle if that's what's causing it. I just swapped out the shaft and bearing for new ones. Although after taking it apart and seeing where the rattle comes from, I would have saved my money on the shaft and just replaced the bearing.
Yeah I've heard about the grease trick as well, but they always applied it to the telescoping part of the steering shaft. Is that where you applied the grease, or did you put it on the part in your picture where its bolted together? If so I'd have just cranked down on the bolt a bit harder. That said, mine was essentially corroded in place...even without the bolt it wouldn't have some apart on its own. Took me like half an hour to work it loose to release the shaft.
I allready replaced my ISS which seemed to help a little bit. I will post pics of the angles tomorrow. How can I tell if the idler arm is bad? Its on 285/70/17s with a slight offset. Wouldnt wheel bearings usually make noise?
At one point gm hada kit for the steering ahaft that cane with a tube of grease and a plug for the shaft.... Was either a tsb or recall, on damn near everything including our trucks
Yeah I was reading about that recall but I saw alot of mixxed reviews and opted for the borgusson replacment because everything that costs money must be worth it right!
if the bars were cranked all the way up and there was a lift block in the back the keys maybe aftermarket, or the bars are basically overstressed, had same issue with my dually i was running 285/75r16s on, even after removing the "leveling" keys and reinstalling the stock ones the truck still sat like it had the keys in it.... And rode like crap, too!! until i ended up putting upper control arms (bad upper ball joints) in it, and aligning it.... The front end never did come back down, but it rode/drove much better...
Apparently my shaft was built on a wednesday.....its never had the rattle....my exes 02 had the rattle until i greased the idler arm frame bracket....may wanna try that too...
I am pretty postive the keys are aftermarket (Fabtec I think) So that could be the problem but Im just gonna wait to go coilovers before I try changing any keys. Im gonna try the idler arm frame bracket tomorrow if its not cold and raining. Hopefully that helps! Im sick of it it seems random somtimes its teeth rattling and other times its not to bad.
I am pretty postive the keys are aftermarket (Fabtec I think) So that could be the problem but Im just gonna wait to go coilovers before I try changing any keys. Im gonna try the idler arm frame bracket tomorrow if its not cold and raining. Hopefully that helps! Im sick of it it seems random somtimes its teeth rattling and other times its not to bad.
I love my coilovers. That and throwing the Autotrac out for AWD are the two best things I've done to mine. And the Firestone Lifetime alignment I mentioned, has maintained it with tbars cranked on the the 33's, lowered some, and lowered more on the coilovers and they never give me trouble.
Heres pics of stuff. I absolutely can't wait to go coilovers but its gonna be ether coilovers or cam and I'm not sure what im gonna pick yet. I also realized today that my wheels are 106.25 hub bore so maybe that could be part of it?
Sep 28, 2015 | 04:03 PM
