So I noticed about a month ago that I was having a weird issue where going in to some turns there would be a split second of "float" before the car would settle and start turning properly. I initially thought my alignment was way off since I had recently gotten coilovers put on. Got an alignment done at allpro (running -1.8ish all around) and the car defintely felt much crisper on turn in but I was still getting a bit of float going into corners. Literally I will turn the wheel but there will be no response from the chasis, it's like the steering has a few degrees of dead zone before it will actually turn the wheels. So last night I'm going to pick up the wife from the airport and I realize that my steering wheel's Center is not fixed. In other words, depending on what my last turn was my steering wheels center will be at least 8 or 9 degrees to the left or the right. Any ideas what it is? Could my rack be so loose it's shifting a few inches either way? I do have whiteline steering bushings, coilovers and whiteline FSB. Thanks in advance.
Could be a rack going out, or it could be low on Power Steering Fluid...I used to have a similar issue and found I was low on fluid...turned out there was also a leak from one of the hard lines....
Power steering is full.....guess its time to get it on a lift. Would be suprised to have the rack go out after less than 50k
The poltec steering rack bushing crapped out on my wagon, i had about 5-10 degrees of play in my steering before it would engage properly lol. Never had a problem with my whiteline bushings disintegrating. My thought are loose rack brackets fo sho.
Two of the bolts had completely backed themselves out and were being held up by the crossmember. Some torque and thread lock=problem solved.