Need truck help/Bad range day

[BPTactical]

Power Steering pump crapped the bed.
Usually they will whine prior but not always.
Bummer dude.
Looked at the bright side-You still have lotsa ammo

[hobowh]

this happened to me in my tahoe it was the pump, was about 350 installed at pepboys.

[Ridge]

Pump crapped out or you blew a line. I did the latter in my old Pontiac a few years ago...made driving up Parker Rd at night going home very interesting....

[MarkCO]

Probably the pump. But jack up the front and make sure the wheel assemblies are not sloppy. The Silverados can dump wheel assemblies and it causes a lot of tow out which affects steering, slight possibility this is your problem...They are pretty easy to replace:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/99-00...%3D5%26ps%3D63

[jerrymrc]

And I almost went up to the south site today after work. I am on the south side and A&P off of "B-street" has always done me fair. Only fix what ya want and a good price to boot. P.S. the body shop there is owned by someone else and I would NOT recommend them. They just lease space.

They do allot of Solders cars and there has never been any claim of being ripped off.

[theGinsue]

Might also want to check the status of your steering stabilizer shock. This is the shock absorber that sits horizontally in front of your front end axle.
Here's a pic to give you some reference (NOTE: The one in this pic is not a stock setup):



I had one that got damaged and then another one that went bad - in both cases I had the same type of steering issues that you're describing.

If this is the cause of your problem they cost about $50 for a good one and they are very easy to remove/install yourself.

[clublights]

I'd agree it's the pump 90% .. in my experience the steering stabilizer will go "soft" and not often go "hard" but to test that just pop one end of it off tie it up outta the way start the truck up and see if the wheels move normally. only other thing I can think of would be the steering box itself going to hell on ya but that seems unlikely unless you bashed it into something. not sure how to test that other then to replace the pump and if the problem is not solved then replace the box. but I don't think that's the problem since you can turn the wheels at all ( tho hard to do you CAN crank the wheel and make em turn lock to lock right ? if you jack the truck up and put it on jack stands so both front wheels are off the ground you should be able to turn em pretty easy without starting the truck ) .

If you can do most basic work I'd say you can do the Pump on your own .. just pick up the Haynes or Chilton Manual ( should be able to grab it at any auto parts store in stock .. check a few of em if the first place don't have it before ya buy online or something )

Probably a couple hour / 2 6-pack kinda job.

[MichiganMilitia]

Thanks for the support fellas. Any other mechanic recommendations or suspected problems?

Look at the bright side-You still have lotsa ammo

Yes, but unfortunately, I paid the 5.56 price ($340 per 1k) but I got the 7.62 ammo which is normally priced at $210 per 1k. I'm not about to swallow a $260 loss because of their mistake. And besides... I don't even have an AK.

[68Charger]

Yes, but unfortunately, I paid the 5.56 price ($340 per 1k) but I got the 7.62 ammo which is normally priced at $210 per 1k. I'm not about to swallow a $260 loss because of their mistake. And besides... I don't even have an AK.

I wonder if somewhere somebody else is either ticked that they have ammo that doesn't fit their AK, or they're stoked because they got ammo worth 50% more than they paid... looks like the pictures from Classicarms? on the off chance they want to work something out where you don't ship it back, I'd be interested- that's Yugoslavian ammo.. corrosive, but loaded hot & pretty accurate (for 7.62) I've had several boxes of it before..

on the truck, I agree it's probably the pump- a quick search found some instances of the input shaft shearing off on that make/model.. Requires pump replacement to fix it... only mechanic I can recommend is down in Florence.

[Pancho Villa]

Use it as an excuse to buy an AK.

Just kidding. Man that sucks - I hope you get the ammo replaced ASAP and your truck fixed. I have an '08 F-150XL (2wd...bought it back in Texas where frozen water falling from the sky is taken as a sign of the apocalypse) and its fortunately not had any problems for me.