We get one or two vehicles a day with the clunk sound from the steering wheel and all we do is retorque and relube the shaft. Problem goes away for almost about a year before it comes back again.

 

Found this over at www.thedieselplace.com, seems they have been using this with good luck.
This just might be the final fix for that POS steering shaft.

http://www.borgeson.com/TruckProductChevy.htm

 

Actually Endo on here found it at Summit for cheaper.

http://store.summitracing.com/egnsea...115+4294907434

 

yeah, and looky here, it's back 1 year later

 

Will a zerk work in this application? It seems like it would've been done if it worked. It's too bad GM didn't come up with a permanent fix for this.

 

Bump...installing a grease fitting won't work?

 

no. when you regrease them, you have to compress the shaft to pack it.....no go on the zerk.

 

Thanks

 

Hey smart ***, I work at a dealer. Do it your way all you want to. Techs like you doing it wrong is what caused this simple problem to get blown out of proportion. I have yet to see one come back that was done correctly. Too many times I have had them return doing it the short cut method.

 

I drilled a small hole and tapped in a zerk. I greased it with a hand pump grease gun............ Grease squeezed out the splined end. There isnt a negative clearance between the splines. So there is room for it to squeeze out. Mine was clunking. Now it magically stopped. Ill stick to greasing it myself when needed rather than hassle with getting it to the dealer. Did the same on my friends 2000. Worked on it too. Im not paying $200 some odd dollars for a steering shaft.