Sterring Wheel Noise

bansell · April 4, 2009

I have a noise in my 2003 silverado.. At first I thought it was the power-steering pump (since it was also hard to turn when warm sometimes) and I replaced that.. It now turns well all the time.. however I get a rubbing noise (odd sound.. still sounds a bit like a straining PS pump.. but its not) the sound is coming from right behind the steering wheel.. Any idea what could cause this?

thanks much,

-Bill

ammrmm · April 19, 2009

I have a noise in my 2003 silverado.. At first I thought it was the power-steering pump (since it was also hard to turn when warm sometimes) and I replaced that.. It now turns well all the time.. however I get a rubbing noise (odd sound.. still sounds a bit like a straining PS pump.. but its not) the sound is coming from right behind the steering wheel.. Any idea what could cause this?

thanks much,

-Bill

I had a similar noise that I thought was coming from right behind the steering wheel when I was turning at slow speed. It wasn't noticable at higher speeds. It ended up being the steering gear. I replaced it with a rebuilt one from the local auto parts store for about $180.00 and 2 hours worth of work.

Hope that helps.

mrhook · April 20, 2009

I have a noise in my 2003 silverado.. At first I thought it was the power-steering pump (since it was also hard to turn when warm sometimes) and I replaced that.. It now turns well all the time.. however I get a rubbing noise (odd sound.. still sounds a bit like a straining PS pump.. but its not) the sound is coming from right behind the steering wheel.. Any idea what could cause this?

thanks much,

-Bill

I had a similar noise that I thought was coming from right behind the steering wheel when I was turning at slow speed. It wasn't noticable at higher speeds. It ended up being the steering gear. I replaced it with a rebuilt one from the local auto parts store for about $180.00 and 2 hours worth of work.

Hope that helps.

When you say steering gear do you mean the whole box? Mine is doing the same thing. Thanks

ammrmm · April 23, 2009

I have a noise in my 2003 silverado.. At first I thought it was the power-steering pump (since it was also hard to turn when warm sometimes) and I replaced that.. It now turns well all the time.. however I get a rubbing noise (odd sound.. still sounds a bit like a straining PS pump.. but its not) the sound is coming from right behind the steering wheel.. Any idea what could cause this?

thanks much,

-Bill

I had a similar noise that I thought was coming from right behind the steering wheel when I was turning at slow speed. It wasn't noticable at higher speeds. It ended up being the steering gear. I replaced it with a rebuilt one from the local auto parts store for about $180.00 and 2 hours worth of work.

Hope that helps.

When you say steering gear do you mean the whole box? Mine is doing the same thing. Thanks

Yes, I mean the whole steering box. You can buy them at just about all of the popular auto parts stores, and many of them will rent you the pitman arm puller required for free when you buy the parts from them. It is a pretty easy swap, but you will need a front end alignment when done.

mrhook · April 23, 2009

Oh, OK thanks very much, thats what I figured you meant.

Tone · October 8, 2010

I had that same goose groan rubbing sound and feeling that seemed to come from right behind the steering wheel in my 05 Z71 Crew 5.3L with 165,000km.

Here's what didn't help - greasing the ISS/replacing the column bearing with a green one/taking apart the steering wheel and shooting white grease into the top bearing area/replacing half of the power steering fluid... although the last one cured most of the power steering pump squealing it had.

I even ordered a new ISS yesterday as the next step; however, today at noon I had the local Minute Lube guys lube up everything in the front end - immediately afterwards I noticed that the dreaded goose groan moan rubbing was gone. I tried to get it back but can't, I let it sit for hours and tried again when it was cool - still can't get it to do it one little bit! You might want to get out your grease guns before doing anything else... also, after reading so many posts about dealers replacing different things to get rid of the problem (like changing out steering boxes and pumps etc. I wonder if they didn't (at the same time) lube the front end real good and that's what actually corrected the problem. Just a thought.