what's up fellas. been a while. so I've been back and forth on whether I was keeping this truck because it needs so much done to it, but...at the end of the day I don't want a car payment and it still starts and runs every single day, so I guess I'm going to put some money and time into it and keep it on the road a bit longer.

First three things I have to take care of are the clutch, steering, and suspension. Clutch, I'm pretty sure is a slave cylinder leak. PITA, but not that big of a deal. Suspension is just old and dead and needs to be replaced. Going to go ahead and lift it while I'm doing it. Think I'm going to pick up a better daily driver, so I'll probably bias towards offroad.

However, the steering...It's f*cking scary and I don't know what's going on with it. I've replaced all the tie rods, LBJ's, steering rack bushings, sway bar links...and the f*cker wont stay on the road. It just goes wherever it wants. any seams in the road, hell, even the painted lines, grab the front wheels and the damn thing just shoots across the lanes like I'm not even steering it. I haven't replaced the steering rack, and I don't know how to figure out if it's bad. Offroading, I can hear and feel the steering knocking back and forth really bad. Like the steering wheel stays stable in my hand but I can feel and hear something in the steering knocking side to side.

When I took it to get aligned, right after I put the brand new OEM tie rods and LBJ's on, the dingalings at the local tire shop told me they couldn't align it and that I needed new tie rods. Tried to sell me inner and outer tie rods. I'm guessing they felt the play I'm talking about and just lazily assumed it was the tie rods.

any ideas what my next move is here?