Steering Gear Box Problems of Dodge Ram 1500

I purchased this truck in a damaged condition after replacing parts that were necessary on front suspinion including track bar which was worn badly for a truck with only 65000 miles truck was taken in for an alignment even after this truck has tendency to wander on road I beleave this is caused by incorrect preload on steering sector which can be adjusted upon researching this on internet I find this tends to be a common problem on these trucks I called Chrysler to see if they would do any kind of policy adjustment on box they said no I feel that this is a safety issue and not a wear problem and sense truck was wreaked by previous owner I wonder if this might have been a contributing factor as the looseness in steering box is not connected to accident and with number of people complaining cannot be coinsidential.

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Dt: consumer states the steering gearbox on the vehicle has a problem. While pulling from the driveway consumer was unable to steer. Vehicle was going about 20mph. Luckily consumer made it back to the driveway. Consumer feels this was the steering gearbox. Vehicle is unable to be driven. After inspection of the vehicle, consumer felt as though it is the gearbox. Vehicle has not been taken to the dealership, but plans to have dealer to double check this issue.

While driving and turning at low speeds, the driver heard a loud noise coming from the front of the vehicle and the vehicle vibrated uncontrollably. The consumer was able to maintain control of the vehicle and pulled over. The driver noticed that the tire was rubbing against the frame. The vehicle was taken to the dealer for inspection. The mechanic informed the driver that the steering gear box needed to be replaced. Please provide further details.

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Steering gear was totally shot and had to be replaced at 38000 miles. I informed dealer that vehicle had always steered that way-overly responsive to the point of being dangerous. Slight movement of steering wheel caused sudden changes.

Problems with tires rubbing and power steering gear box. The steering gear box was made to turn too sharp, which caused the tires to rub on the frame.

This has been an ongoing situation since about 35000 miles. Under extended warranty the dealer replaced all most all of the front end parts on my 99 Ram 1500 4wd. Most recently this truck failed the new your state inspection for wobble in the steering box output shaft. This steering box was replaced by the dealer about 9600 miles before. The truck had a lot of play in the steering and the wheel was at about 1:30 instead of 12:00. Three mechanics and myself saw the play. This garage told me to take it back to the dealer as it would be under warranty. I did this and had to leave the truck for them to check. I was told by the service manager that there was no play and no repairs were needed. The truck wheel was now at12: 00 and it was hard to steer with no return to center. I talked to the service manager and he said that there were no adjustments to the steering box and that the only adjustment to the allignment was toe in so he said that my truck had derveloped memory steering and that the steering was really tight and that I should not complain. Not satisfied as I had seen the play myself I replaced the steering box and lo and behold the steering was like new. Easy returns to center and the steering wheel is centered. What I found out about the deffective steering box was that the over center adjustment was 1 turn too tight and that the worm shaft preload was too tight and the pitman arm seals were replaced with new seals and they used chassis lube which was new and clean. All this while saying that there were no repairs needed or done. The pitman shaft bearing was worn between . 045 and. 057 the new seals took up the play. My question would be if nemer Dodge service does this kind of repair and says that they did nothing to keep from having to pay for warranty work what else are they doing. It should be noted that my son ,an inexperienced driver as he is just now getting his liscence, could not keep this truck on the road. He needed to use two lanes to drive.

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When brand new tires were installed, rotated and balanced the tire shop service man indicated that the steering gear cut into the tires which could result in a blow out. Dealership replaced the steering gear. However, failure recurred.

Steering gear box had to be replaced twice by dealer. But, problem is reoccurring. Feel free to provide any further information.

When turning steering wheel completely to right or left, the wheel turns too far. There is no stop in gear box. Also when this happens, tire hits shock absorber bracket, and is slowly shredding the tire. Consumer replaced tires with narrower tires. They still rub against the shock absorber bracket. The vehicle was taken to the dealer where the advice given was to replace the steering gear box that had internal stops. This vehicles gear box was not equipped with that feature.

While traveling approximately 20 to 25 mph consumer lost control. A dealership examined the vehicle, and determined that a seal inside steering gear box blewout, causing the problem. Parts were available for inspection. Please provide any additional information / attachments.

Consumer makes a left turn at any given speed tires rub against shock brackets which causes a noise. Dealership has replaced spindle twice and steering gear box. Wants to put a 2mm shim on the back of tire. The 2mm shims were installed but the tire on left side was still rubbing.

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Consumer has to continuously fight to keep vehicle on road. Took vehicle to dealer, and they replaced steering box. But problem reoccurred, and vehicle has been at dealers 6 times since then.

We started to have problems with the van since it was purchased, we went back to the dealer rigth after we noticed a few problems with the van, such as car pulling to the rigth and a loud thump sound coming from the rigth rear side every time we pass those speed bumps. And when they inspected the van they (the dealer technicians), told me that a shock absorver needed to be replace and alignment was needed as well. After this two things were done, everything went down the hill. . . . When I drove home the van I noticed that van was pulling still to the rigth and a noise was coming from the left front suspension when braking, is more like a cracking noise, I'll mention that this was't happening all the time, but the pulling to the rigth was. We went back with them, they aligned again. . . But, this time the van was not pulling to the rigth but to the left instead, this happend when driving straigth or when braking as well, we went back to the same dealer, but after some attempsof fixing this problem and a very unpleasent experiences with their (customer representaives) at desplaines Dodge dealer, not to try again wih them, we contacted Chrysler representatives, and told them about the very dumb comment the customer representative of desplaines Dodge dealer, that they suggested to take the van to a 5 stars shop the comment the customer representative made was (that the van was pulling to the rigth because it was a safety feature build in the van to prevent people wander to the to the left in case the fell sleep, this was a very dumb thing to said. So finally we went to that 5 stars dealer, and a (big) inprovement was achieve, the van was pulling less but on this occasion instead of pulling to rigth it started to pull to the left and the steering wheel was not straight, it was croocked to the left and before was to the right. I noticed more play on the steering wheel. I'll mention that ever since we have this van in our possession the steering wheel never th.

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While driving, consumer could hear and feel a clicking/knocking noise, dealer replaced the steering shaft, however the gear box was found to be the problem, consumer states that at dead center, he could feel no steering contact with linkage.

While steering steering wheel acted like there was no power steering. Dealer replaced steering box, but problem returned. Please provide further information.

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Front wheels turning far enough making contact with lower control arm. Which caused extreme wear on the tire cutting the groove in the sidewall approviamately 1 1/2 inches from the tire bead. The dealer staed that the turning stops in the steering box were worn and caused the problem. Mr scc.