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Dec 18, 2013 | 02:48 PM

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White Max

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Originally Posted by mrrish79

Has anyone put a Steering Stabilizer Kit on their truck before? I heard its suggested for older trucks with high mileage and trucks with tires bigger than stock.

I run one from Skyjacker to reduce tramlining with the wider than stock tires (33x12.50's). It can mask other steering issues, so I recommend sorting everything out before installing one.

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Originally Posted by DBD7

my father in-law had a 96 F250 that had horrible steering wheel Lash. so bad that you would have to move the wheel 3 or 4 inches in either direction to keep it on the road. he told me to fix it there is an allen screw on the steering box that he tightened and it took up the play there.

I did not do this my self so I am not sure on the correctness of this and this only works if the play is in the steering box.

There is a lash adjustment on the steering box, however caution must be taken here. If you run the adjuster in too far, you'll have issues with return-to-center and "notchy" steering. There is a lash adjustment procedure that involves measuring steering effort, but most just go with the "1/8 of a turn at at time" approach.

Dec 19, 2013 | 08:24 AM

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mrrish79

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I already have wider tires but only 10.50's and have decided the biggest tire I'm going with is a 31x10.50 my previous truck had a 6 inch suspension lift with 35's I've gotten the monster truck fever out of my system haha.

I agree and plan on finding the root cause before adding a steering stabilizer heck I should have put one on my last truck for sure it was all over the road.

where exactly on the steering box is the lash adjustment and good call on the 1/8" turn.

Dec 19, 2013 | 09:23 AM