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Originally Posted by SpitAndDirt
This may help....I don't know if your "popping" is only from turning the wheel to full right lock or not, but you may try putting some grease on the spindle stops. These are the small areas that contact the spindle with the Lower A arm and prevent the wheels from turning any further than designed. Sometime these areas will grab each other after many miles. The popping you may be hearing is the releasing of the two parts from one another. Two last items, one don't ride the steering on full lock, it prematurely wears out the power steering pump, and second, make sure that the truck is aligned by a very qualified shop with an up to date alignment rack. I have a 96 Z71 that needed alignment badly. You can only set a rough adjustment yourself but it takes a properly calibrated laser alignment setup to do it correctly.
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Actually, the popping noise will not happen until the wheel is about half way to lock. Is it possible that the CV joint (spindle) might be moving in and out of the bearing? The nut seems to be tightend down. Also, I don't remember seeing a zerk fitting on the pitman arm but I'm going to check that out
immediately. I appreciate the ideas!!!
gwjturner