When you turn the adjustment screw you are changing the steering box gear lash. This needs to be measured or it can/will bind and cause the steering box to fail. Some may get lucky with small adjustments and have the box last longer then the XJ itself but if done incorrectly it will cause problems. Who wants to be driving 70+ mph on the highway and have the steering box bind?

Its your XJ do as you want, FSM states take the box out and adjust the gear lash in a specific order. Pretty sure if it was as easy as tighten the screw till it feels good they would of said that.

Not trying to rain on the parade, I just don't want someone to think they can just turn the screw and be done with it. That is misleading and could put someone in harms way.

Sorry for being the thread downer.

 

Must be something new then. When I got my mechanics license ummm errr a long time ago, the teacher would have hit me with a BP hammer if I had suggested that.

 

You must be looking at something I'm not seeing. What are you smoking?
Seriously Ohio is in the same rust belt London is. I know cars that looked "That Bad" after 6 months here.
Thats an 11 year old car. WHAT RUST? Seriously point it out to me. PLEASE!

 

The "modest" rust. My 97' XJ, 02' WJ, 96 ZJ, 92' YJ, and 97' ZJ were all true Florida cars, and all looked as fresh as the day they were made underneath. My current 90' XJ however spent most of its life in Kansas before ending up down here. The biggest question I get asked is if I accidentally left it parked in the Gulf of Mexico, since the rockers and drivers door are rotted out.

 

Here is an az fact about rust there is no undercoat services offered in arizona the last one closed in 1958 and the last time it was offered at a dealership was 1978

 

Don't worry, I am an oxymoron. I live in Tucson AZ where vehicles don't rust at all but my XJ is from Buffalo, NY. Luckily it looks like it came from the factory with an undercoat, so the body is pretty well preserved, but a lot of the mechanical parts have a bit of corrosion.

 

Why do you have an xj from ny when you live in az

 

I bought it in haste because I had already been looking around for a vehicle for 3 months, I needed to buy a vehicle before I spent the money on something else. The body and interior were in such good shape I figured it had to be in an over all good condition. Stupid me didn't even think to check the undercarriage for rust, living in Tucson all my life I had never even owned a vehicle with rust before. You live and you learn... I've even heard of places painting over rust to hide it....A car fax report is a good investment, that way you can see where it's from and where it's been registered and what not.