Steering wheel play

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Mar 16, 2020 | 12:53 PM

windlover

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From: Coarsegold, CA

Year: 1998

Model: Cherokee

Engine: 4.0

Steering wheel play

How much is normal and when should the steering box be replaced? My steering a kind of sloppy and I would like to get it firmed up.

I can move my steering wheel about an inch before anything happens.

Mar 17, 2020 | 06:56 AM

cruiser54

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Sounds a bit much.

Have someone turn the steering wheel back and forth while you look for sloppiness in the components.

Mar 17, 2020 | 04:36 PM

windlover

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I did. The steering wheel was being moved about an inch with no movement of the arm.

Mar 17, 2020 | 04:53 PM

4.3L XJ

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Year: 1986

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Next thing to check is the U joints on the sector shaft

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