ok first off i have searched this for a while and this site has been very helpful in determining that my sloppy steering and excessive wandering on the highway is due to a worn rag joint

i have popped the hood and had an assitant slightly wiggle the steering wheel while i watched the rag joint...... it is worn and loose

trust me everything else in the steering is solid and tight, with that in mind who has replaced it with a aftermarket shaft or a 98 grand cherokee shaft like the article i read linked from 20blazer00 and orginally written by 92s10sport from a diff site:

http://forums.s-series.org/viewtopic...hlight=tighten steering

ok couple of questions

1. how hard is this swap?the article while well written and even humorous had me puzzled a few times

2. for a 95 4x4 blazer i need a 98 grand cherokee shaft right?

3. any other parts or tools that may be helpful

thanks anybody who has done this swap on a second gen (+95) or a similar one any help would be very much appreciated

i am headed to the junk yard on wed to pull one off a Jeep Grand Cherokee (not totally certain of the year) and i just want to make this swap as easy and as SAFE as possible

thanks in advance

 

Make sure that whatever you replace it with only has one u-joint, otherwise your steering shaft may bind up on you. There is already one u-joint behind the firewall, adding one more is not going to hurt things, adding two more will.

 

wow i was just about to head to the junk yard to do the cherokee swap and now i hear this

thank you for the advice, makes sense

anybody else mess arround with either steering shaft and got some advice?

 

replaced worn shaft with one from an 02 blazer with less miles

had to cut 1/2 inch off to fit but easy swap and steering is much better

thanks for everybody help

 

With as many Blazers as there are, you'd think some aftermarket company would offer a replacement.