no power stteering after 3" body lift

[Brainsaw]

Well i finaly installed my 3" body lift last weekend. What a pain. Body bolt over the gas tank was seized!!, the whole thing just turned, almost had to drop the gas tank but I was able to fit a wrench up and over the tank and in there somehow.
16 hours later me and my bro had the X back on the road.
Started the truck, turned the wheel and it felt like moving a ton of bricks! Drove down the road a bit, same thing, there is no power steering. You can here it whine like it normaly does but i get no action.

I better mention this...During the body lift process I removed the bolt from the steering coupler. Jacked the drivers side of the car up and noticed the coupler was still attached. I set the body back down, heard some bad noises while lowering the jack =(. beat the steering coupler with a hammer to remove it. Wonder if I tore up the inards of the power steering system stretching it like that with the jack while the steering coupler and shaft were seized together?

 

[Howard]

Ouch that could be $$$ but first check that the flexible pips to the box to see if they are kinked/damaged. You may have crushed them with the hammer! Else the box is dead (hammer again). All the best.

 

[Brainsaw]

With some more investigation I found the problem. The steering extension has play in it. It creates a bind when I turn the wheel. I tightened it and that seemed to fix the problem for about 5 minutes then it went back to binding. If there was a better fitting steering extension than the one from PA I would buy it.

 

[mahieber]

Something doesn't sound right. I have a 92 with a PA 3" lift and I didn't have any play or problems with the extension.