Prostar to much play in the steering wheel

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(09-05-2023 )Rawze Wrote:  

(09-05-2023 )tree98 Wrote:  Sounds like they went through a LOT of effort just to make it worse than it was when they started. I don't think I would trust those U-bolts anymore. How many times were they loosened and retightened?? Who knows??

just an FYI>
on the hendrickson front ends, it is not the axle u-bolts that get loosened. There are no leaf-springs in the system at all, so adjusting it is just regular bolts at the lower-front hanger (to add more caster), or at the axle lower torsion bar (to add less caster), for tweaking it one way or the other.

This isn't the case with the most common International Hendrickson non air suspension (Steertek NXT). Caster is adjusted by changing the aluminum spacer blocks between the top of the axle and bottom of leaf (or shimming there) for the Steertek NXT, so the u bolts need to be loosened every time to change (just putting this out there for eyes passing through)