I am stumped!!!
I changed the powersteering pump, steering box and hydroboost and I STILL got terrible steering!!! Sure is hard to back up my rv and even park in a parking lot??? Must be something else binding or maybe seized???
God this truck is killing me..........

 

tire pressure, or seized ball joints????

 

jack up the front end of the truck and rotate side to side with it in the air i be it is air locked. did it to my 90 cummins a bunch of times. check the ps fluid it will be foamy prolly let it settle and add some more do the same thing til the reservoir is to the full mark and no foam persists. do not overfill! oh and use good fluid

 

For what it's worth, the power steering systems on these trucks are barely adequate to turn stock tires, much less the "37"/12.50/20 BFG AT KO's" that you have. That's the main reason your having these problems in the first place.

 

I'm not saying it's related but I recieved a safety recall for my truck yesterday because of possible front end troubles.....

 

It turned these tires a year ago when I bought the truck like no problem. This is why I can't figure this out. I raised the truck up to prime and bleed the system after I got it all back together and it turned great. Set the front end down and took it for a drive and it was the same as before. I must have something too tight in the front end or something like that??

 

I'd bet you have a stiff ball joint.

 

what recall number is it?

 

I received one too, seems it's a recall on a recall. The letter mentions if you brought your truck in for front end work you may have had unsafe recall parts installed on your truck, i.e. the upgraded 08 steering components to fix the previous death wobble problems. I don't have that so I'm not worried.

 

My entire front end was rebuilt last April with Moog replacment parts so I was exempt from the Dodge recall. It must be a bad ball joint because I know one of the on the drivers side has a pretty mean clunk in it when you go over a bump.

 

Doesn't happen much on the 3rd gen but make sure your track bar and drag link are solid as well as tie rod ends. Ball joint will cause some issues as well and the put junks in these truck and big tires eat them quickly. My buddy is on his 4 set with his 37 in about 70k miles. .

 

Not to be captain obvious, but you havent bent your steering stabilizer by chance? happened to me once.......

 

I thought that stabilizer might have been seized up so I took it off lastnight and drove to work this morning. No real difference with or without it so this leads me to think it must be a ball joint or something like that. Just really sucks that I spent all that money on steering parts that were just fine...

 

there are a lot of people lately myself included that have had steering problems that may be related to moog bj's. my drivers side lower would bind but only with weight on it, truck wouldn't turn and no return to center. figured it out after i put in a new steering gear and linkage....

 

To see which side it is, jack up one side to just get the wheel off the ground and unload the suspension on that side. Test steering and then repeat on the other side. If it is a ball joint on only one side this should help you isolate it.

Use a fishing weight scale on the steering wheel to see what the exact turning resistance is and do it in both directions.