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Old Mar 15, 2012 | 09:08 AM
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VERY WEIRED STEERING Problem!! HELP ASAP

Ok, very weird. Have a 04 F250. Got in her this morning to and starts fine, sounds fine. The guy that was taking the truck this morning came to me and aske me to look at it. When you go to turn the whell the wheel turns like theres no weight on the front end. LITERLY! You can turn the wheel, like whiped it and it turns all the way left or right way to easy. What would cause this? Power Steering Pump going out? Like I said there is no squek are noise coming from any where. And when you make a turn and you know how the wheel will strighn after the turn, well she wont do that either. ANY AND ALL HELP will e much app!
 
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Old Mar 15, 2012 | 11:04 AM
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really no one knows anything? LOL
 
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Old Mar 15, 2012 | 01:48 PM
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I cnat believe no one has any ideas LOL I know you guys are smart out there~!!!!
 
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Old Mar 15, 2012 | 02:23 PM
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Mine got a lot easier to turn when I blew the steering stabilizer.
 
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Old Mar 15, 2012 | 02:39 PM
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Dude, it's been less than a day! Give people a chance to get home from work and get on here. Not everyone can slack off at work like us and check forums all day
 
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Old Mar 15, 2012 | 03:13 PM
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I am at work, but tryn to fix oit the problem, which is my job shop guy
 
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Old Mar 15, 2012 | 03:19 PM
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Crash, would that happen by one of the guys hittin someting hard?
 
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Old Mar 16, 2012 | 10:28 AM
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bump bump bump
 
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Originally Posted by Crash16
Mine got a lot easier to turn when I blew the steering stabilizer.

X2 here^^^^^^^^^^^^^

About all I can think of too maybe all the Fluid leaked out the steering stabilizer.

Maybe you might have a problem with the Power Steering pump Im not shure how it regulated though
 
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Old Mar 16, 2012 | 03:22 PM
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I believe its the Steering Gear Box, for everyone elses future ref
 
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Old Mar 25, 2012 | 10:53 AM
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I had a similar problem and had to replace the gearbox. Mine wouldn't starighten out after a turn but it was alittle stiff when I made a turn left or right. I ended up having to replace the pump and the gearbox. If you do decide to replace the gearbox, I would recommend a readhead gb. When I went through my steering problems, I got one from powersteering pros and it lasted about 6 months. After another 6 months of having to prove to them it was indeed a faulty gearbox, they sent me another one under warranty but told me that it would be the last one they would cover. I learned about readhead after going through all that and I learned it from FTE. If I recall correctly, redhead beefs up the worm gear.

Thats just my experience. I don't mean to talk bad or degrade a business, but I wish I would have been warned prior to spending that much money.

If this one fails, I will spend a few more bucks on the readhead since powersteering pros won't warranty the second one.
Here's alink to the thread. https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/8...installed.html
Hope this helps.
 
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Old Mar 26, 2012 | 08:13 PM
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Got mine @ Oriley auto. Lifetine warrinty. Fixed the problem I was havn.
 
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