I replaced the intermediate shaft thinking it would fix a clunking I had. The car is actually worse now, and has developed a rattle that sounds exactly like this:


Starts at 36 seconds.

Is this the plastic gear in the steering motor issue? Kind of weird how it developed after replacing the intermediate shaft.

Any help/advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks

 

That would drive me nuts.... until I found it and fixed it.

 

Pretty sure it's the steering column. If I grab the column I can move the shaft in and out where it connects to the intermediate shaft. The old shaft probably had some play in it that was dampening the noise.

There's a TSB that tells you how to diagnose it. Involves pulling the fuse and driving on gravel. Looks like the part is 300-400 bucks alone.

 

Put the old shaft back in. Rattling gone.

Noticed the new one was longer than the old one. New is GM, old is Dorman. Both shafts fully compressed.

 

interesting, did you contact dorman now?

 

That's sad...

 

So the Doorman one wasn't rattling? The GM one was? I'm a little lost between which shaft is the new and old and which is the Doorman and GM

 

That GM one looks way different than the GM one that I put in mine.

 

Sounds like you got the wrong part

 

Dorman (old) left, GM (new) right.

I did some research, Amazon refunded me for the Dorman part (originally purchased in 2013) and I bought the GM one online in 2016. Part # 15800140.