Was your rack and pinion a bolt on? What did you change your gear box with?
My stock steering gear box was adjusted out best I could, with front end in the air, engine off, and dropping the power assist ram.....to get a good feel of the basic mechanics....dropped the front end on the ground, and repeated the effort.....
jacked it back up and felt it again, then hooked up the p/s mechanics....
basically no change....
SO, I heard of a fellow in Europe that did a rack install, finally found the American equivalent of that GM rack HE used.....and it fits an '89 Grand Am, as well as many other GM cars.....
SO, having finally figgered out what rack worked, NOT ANY END TAKE OFF RACK, but a CENTER take off rack, and so with car up in the air, I took that fresh to the junker/junkyard rack off the '89 Grand Am.....and set it on jackstands under the car moving and flipping it around with engine out....noting the distances from the old steering components to the engine oil pan....laying out levels and tapes measuring to get it up high as possible, first thing was to get the steering wheel to be grenade proof as possible and use only two Universal joints.... I been a junkyard hotrodder for decades now....so I mix matched universal joints I paid nearly nothing for, and made up my own stuff....stamping it together just like the OEM stuff....
after that, to make up tie rod ends....just cut the center tubes, lengthen them, and once again, grenade proof, and have a center rack adapter machined to fit the stock tie rod ends as used by every car....not heim joints....
engine in place, I was nervous about clearances....had to bang the pan a bit up front curved section to get the rack to clear the rubber bellows.....and then I had to move the rack power assist lines..... to clear the engine....no biggie, just bent them over a tad.....
believe me, this rack install is a LOT simpler than most folks make it seem....
what with commercial rack supports welding problems, weight like crazy, and all the BS .....really now, MY rack supports been in there since 'new' and still function...tested on concrete brushed driveway with engine off, and on...and the mounts do not move....I keep checking just to be sure, once in a while....course I painted my metal to help with rust issues....DUH!!!!
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