redfishsc
Tired of fixing lousy engineering.
I have a ton of play in my steering gearbox and it's not the rag joint. I put in a new rag joint a while back but you can definitely still see play in the gearbox. After I did the ball joints a couple years ago the shop had some difficulty aligning it because of the shop in the gearbox. Also have a mystery ps fluid leak.
As she's aged the steering on this 99 Suburban 2wd has gotten stranger (loose and way over boosted).
Anyhow I'm familiar with the electronic speed sensitive steering and thankfully this truck never does any sudden odd twitches, it's always as smooth as glass (too smooth honestly). It's just 100% boost all the time.
I'm tempted to go try to rob parts off a 96 model at the boneyard or get new ones off Rock Auto, I've read that they don't have the speed sensitive ps pump and the gearbox is a better ratio (less "boosted" feeling).
Anyone successful in getting firmer steering on these late 90's models?
What bugs me is that I used to have another 99 Suburban alongside this one that was a 4wd and the steering in it was pretty good. I didn't see anything different on it.
As she's aged the steering on this 99 Suburban 2wd has gotten stranger (loose and way over boosted).
Anyhow I'm familiar with the electronic speed sensitive steering and thankfully this truck never does any sudden odd twitches, it's always as smooth as glass (too smooth honestly). It's just 100% boost all the time.
I'm tempted to go try to rob parts off a 96 model at the boneyard or get new ones off Rock Auto, I've read that they don't have the speed sensitive ps pump and the gearbox is a better ratio (less "boosted" feeling).
Anyone successful in getting firmer steering on these late 90's models?
What bugs me is that I used to have another 99 Suburban alongside this one that was a 4wd and the steering in it was pretty good. I didn't see anything different on it.