Hey kids! Whiskey the cat came home with a squirrel the other day. Thankfully it was already dead so I didn't have to kill it. Just wish he wouldn't bring it in the house. Damn cat. So I eventually got my truck back. Discovered they put the PS fluid filter on backwards. Direction matters. So I went to reverse it and then discovered they used ATF for PS fluid. Nope, that's a no no. These old trucks take their own PS fluid. So flushed out the ATF and put in the right stuff, bled the air out and done with that. Then when I got my old rack n pinion back I discovered it wasn't the lower coupler they busted on the steering shaft but rather the upper coupler. The upper coupler is the same on all the steering shafts. The lower coupler is different depending on if it has a column shift, tilt wheel, power steering, or RWD. They could have simply used the upper coupler on the first boneyard shaft I got them. Nooooo! Folks, this is why I do my own work. When I hire out this is the kind of crap I get. Add to that, my front end now has a shimmy when I make slow, hard turns like going in and out of a parking space. Thought it could be a bad toe in the alignment. Took it back to them and they said no their alignment is fine. So I don't know what that is. It's not horrible but it bothers me. My voltage is also fluctuating again. I'm hoping that's just a result of the truck not running for
three weeks and it killed an already weak battery. So I go get one problem fixed and it's returned to me with two new problems. Cannot win.
