The steering wheel is turning almost 360 degrees when going through a simple left or right hand 90-degree turn. I don't hear any squealing and it can still turn further than that, but I also don't remember rotating it that much to go through a turn.
As far as I can tell, nothing out of the ordinary, No shimmy, wobble, clicks or pops. It's been raining since we got back yesterday so I haven't been able to get up under there like I want to, but a visual scan didn't show any steering linkage parts any worse than they were before, which again is why they're being swapped out this week.
If you are over rotating to do a simple turn, be very careful with how much you drive it. Possible causes are one of the splined joint connectors on the steering shaft may have lost a bolt and is stripping splines. That holds true from the steering wheel to the input shaft on the steering gear.
Yeah it's finally stopped raining so I'll be able to get under there later today and start pulling on things and getting a closer look at all that.
You are correct but think about going around a corner and how far you have to turn the steering wheel. I seem to recall that isn't much more than 180 degrees to get around a typical turn, no?
