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Default 07 LS460 Rack Bushings??
Steering wandering, feels like how rack bushings would feel. Can’t locate any rack bushings anywhere. Anyone know of any solutions?
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Sadly not sold separately.
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Inspect your upper arms, steering stability and direction comes from those. Then I would check the rack...
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Replaced upper arms after inspecting them. Replaced both sides. Improved a little but still dangerous.
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Sadly not sold separately.
This sucks. Do you know if the bushings come out at all? I haven’t taken it down before to know. If so, might just make some DIY window weld bushings…
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Replaced upper arms after inspecting them. Replaced both sides. Improved a little but still dangerous.
Did you actually get the car in the air and visually confirm this? Are you certain it's the actual rack and not tie rods or hubs or even the steering shafts? It's rare the actual rack to car connections get bad enough to feel "dangerous" on any car.
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Originally Posted by Maffmatix
Steering wandering, feels like how rack bushings would feel. Can’t locate any rack bushings anywhere. Anyone know of any solutions?
If the lower control arms have not been replaced since you've owned the car, I would recommend checking those bushings too. Is there any play in the steering? How is the overall condition of your tires/tread? Sometimes it could be one main part that is the cause, or a combination of parts' wear that is contributing to the wandering feeling.
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Who's doing the diagnosing? Who's doing the work? If a shop did the mentioned work but hadn't pinpointed the exact issue, it's time to change shops. If poster is doing diagnosing and work, time to bring to a shop.
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Yea, to date I've yet to see a LS with messed up rack mounting. Further diag necessary.
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Originally Posted by Maffmatix
Steering wandering, feels like how rack bushings would feel. Can’t locate any rack bushings anywhere. Anyone know of any solutions?

I had this same problem on my 2012 with around 45k miles

after replacing upper and lower front control arms (8) with proper allignment problem is now solved
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Originally Posted by Striker223
Did you actually get the car in the air and visually confirm this? Are you certain it's the actual rack and not tie rods or hubs or even the steering shafts? It's rare the actual rack to car connections get bad enough to feel "dangerous" on any car.
I am the one getting my hands dirty on my car lol. I changed them already after I saw the bushings were cracked when I was changing the hub bearing….haven’t checked the steering shaft as yet…I’ll check that out. Don’t have anyone to help so it kind of holds me up at times…
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I have a manual SC300 that I had to change the rack bushings on and it felt exactly how this feels…just was coming to the forum to see if there was part number for the rack bushing….
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