Well... What a mess.

I was driving home yesterday from running some errands and started to hear a clicking/thumping noise that was rhythmic with the tires, and the steering got pretty sloppy. Got home, did some hunting around for it, and found it pretty quickly... The entire steering rack was moving left and right, not just the tie rods. Also, my leak suddenly got much worse, and fluid was coming out very quickly. Alright, so time to finally get a "new" rack like I've been meaning to do.



Got on craigslist and found one pulled from an '02. Went and picked it up, along with some new bushings, and got to installing. This was tough! I hadn't ever messed around with the steering rack before, yet alone replaced one, and the documentation was fairly vague on it.

13 hours later... here I am with a non-leaking, working steering rack! Sooo much work involved, but glad I finally got it all working. Alignment is very messed up now, as expected, but I'll get that fixed soon. Some new outer tie rods are also in the future.



It's so shiny... (compared to what I used to have, that is)