Is my steering rack toasted?

[goro]

Well, when my 4runner went topsy turvy a few months ago, I nailed a tree pretty hard and threw my wheel off about a quarter turn. So I got the frame straightened, new fenders thrown on, tie rod replaced, and took it down to Big O for an alignment. They got the wheels mostly straight, but said the wheel was a different story cause the rack had skipped a tooth or few and sent me on my way at no charge(can't stress how nice they've been to me).

My dad and I straightened the wheel at the top of the rack to more or less centered and everything seemed good until I checked the turn radius. Turns out I did indeed loose about a quarter turn to the left or so, not too bad and not enough to scare me away from leaving it like that. However, I've also been noticing a bit of pull to the right, a lot more noticable under braking(shouldn't be the brakes, those are fairly new).

So the question is, would that loss of range cause the pulling issues, meaning I should replace it, or should I just leave it like so and try to get it aligned again properly?

 

[the great him]

id say replace it... its only gonna lead to more problems down the road if you leave it like this, and chances are you wont be able to get it aligned properly so yeah replace it, and try and find a used rack out or a wrecked truck(ironic i know) but i have heard not so good things about some of the remans out there and new ones from toyota are asking for your first born as a down payment...

 

[DGO-SR5]

I thought my steering rack was going out because under hard braking I would have a scary pull to one side and ended up being inner tie rods but I think you said you replaced those. Anyway just a thought