Originally Posted by Solaris99

My steering had been degrading for a while. It started out as sometimes hard to turn left. Like I could turn the wheel 35 degrees with a load on the front and the wheel would go to a manual feeling. If I turned harder, it would go normal and I could turn in more with power. After a while it started to become impossible to take any turn with speed without steering lockup. Then I got slow steering response immediately off center. Meaning, I could turn the steering wheel a little off center in either direction and it wouldn't steer the car much. It was loose.

I didn't diagnose properly and blamed the electric motor, so I swapped that out and the condition persisted. Before I even installed the motor, I knew it was probably not the cause. I just didn't pay much mind to the steering play until then. For the last couple of months, I have not enjoyed driving the car tremendously. Today, it has all been restored. The steering is perfect now. It drives straight as an arrow, too.

My diagnosis on the rack? Something wore out. For whatever reason, the driver side tie rod can move out of the rack without resistance from the pinion. I peeled back the boot and watched it. It was not the ball joint on the tie rod. I thought steering racks were a single bar running the length of the rack housing with threaded ends. Are the threaded ends of the rack rod fastened on somehow? How does the driver side move independently of the rest of the rack assembly?

Really easy job.

Originally Posted by jg123boss

Where did you get the steering rack and pinion

Originally Posted by jg123boss

Could a bad steering rack cause my car to wander on the road i feel like sometimes its hard to keep the car in a single lane straight. Ive already changed tire and done an alignment

Originally Posted by Powell Race Parts

The LNF does NOT have a different steering rack. The LNF knuckle steering arms are shorter however, which changes the effective steering ratio.