Hi Guys,

My truck - 2006 Megacab 3500 4wd auto, 155k miles, I've owned since 2007 and 13k miles. Never been a daily, mainly a travel/trip truck, lots of trips out West and Bikeweek, 95% of miles in overdrive towing on highway or in garage. No rust on frame or body.

I do all maintenance/repairs. Last winter I did a bunch of preventative and upgrade items. Did the Y to T steering upgrade (Moog greasable), installed Dynatrac free spin, front axle shaft universals, Mevotech TTX greasable ball joints. Had alignment done by local tire chain that had the right size rack for truck. I don't think they adjusted anything except toe, camber is prob where it's been since new. Since work was done I have a tightness in the steering around center. It doesn't want to fall to a natural "center" and you are constantly making small corrections going down the road. Very annoying/exhausting on a long trip to keep it in the lane.

I read a bunch of similar threads on here saying to add camber but I don't think it's any different then before I did the front end work. Threads said give time to break in but it's been a year and about 6500 miles.

I'm wondering if I could have damaged the steering box while removing the original pitman arm? I had to machine down a puller to fit between the box and arm, then hammer the puller screw pretty good while under tension to get the old arm off the sector shaft. Thinking now that was a mistake and maybe I hurt the box internally. Nothing is leaking, only problem is the tightness around center. There's no real slop in the steering. Steering box and steering shaft are original.

Anybody run into this or have thoughts? Thanks

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More caster makes the wheels want to 'find' center on their own. It's very possible the factory spec is not enough.

Edit: you will want to make sure the trac bar ends have zero slop in them.