i have a 97 f350 heavy duty and i experience a binding or sticking steriing every ounce in awile it comes and goes and iDEAS? ive heard these trucks had problems with the colum bearings could that be the issue? some info on this problem would help thanks luke

 

Check out this link...hope it helps.

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...ng-column.html

 

this describes excatly what im getting except for my wheel is tight in the collum

 

Mine started out the same way. It would feel like it was sticking once in a while. It did that for the longest time. Some days it was smooth as glass, others it would stick a bit. Then it started to feel like it was ratcheting, getting tighter. Then one day it almost locked up on me turning into my drive way. I had to pull pretty hard and something broke loose, thats when some the ***** came out of the bearing.

At that point I had I guess about a 1/4" of play in the steering wheel. By play I mean I could sit in the seat and lift the wheel up and down, left and right about a 1/4".

Before it failed I had the steering wheel off and looked around didn't see anything. I cleaned and greased the horn contacts, greased the front end several time, replaced a tie rod that had a leaking grease retainer.

When the bearing finally failed, I was pleased, now I knew what the problem was and it was a simple fix.

I'm not saying that your bearing is bad, there are probably a million other things it could be as well. All I am saying is that if mine starts binding and sticking again, that the first thing I will replace.

Hope this helps.

 

ya thats what im gonna prob replace tht sounds exactly what mines doin thank for the advise luke

 

just did the colum bearings it took cars of the problem thanks for the help guys

 

I have a 2004 F250 Super Duty That catchs when turning to the left almost took out a mail box Sunday. Any ideas.