1 rack, 2 pumps, 1 high pressure line, a pulley and a belt later, my steering issue is solved. Being in the auto repair business, I am embarrased to say that I had my wallet in the fully automatic attack mode. I truly beleive that the entire issue would have been solved by replacing the belt first. while it looked good, no cracks, glazing etc., it was stretched a little and not making good contact with the pulley. My advise to anyone would be to replace the belt first[X(][:@]oh well, live and learn

 

Glad you got itfigured out, [sm=smiley20.gif]and thanks for posting what you found, may save somebody a lot of time and money down the road.