okay, I finally got the truck fired up yesterday, still have to do a little "Finesse" with tuning, but she's running again. I'm guessing that balancer was the "Root of all my evil's" with regards to drivetrain noise I was experiencing. When I would slow to a stop, there would be a "clanking" noise that almost sounded like bad u joints transmitting through the driveshaft. well, changing that balancer must have done the trick, because no matter how hard I drove it, I could not get that noise to happen.....Yeah!!!
Now, onto fixing my leaking Power steering gearbox......I've been experiencing a weird problem with my lower control arm on the driver's side...
it seems every time I would replace the bump stop rubber cushion, then make a hard right turn, the suspension would compress and chuck the rubber out of the control arm bracket that holds it.....now just so you know, I'm running 2" lowering coils and 2 1/2" drop spindles up front, I noticed the steering sector shaft (Pittman Arm) is located right above the left control arms and since it's leaking, it's making the rubber slick and guess it's the "Weakest Link" so it gets spit out on turns....$10 a shot to replace, I'm fixing my leak pronto!\
not much else to say, I'll post pictures later.
Have a good one!
Ben
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