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ONE THING you must do when checking for slop is to unload the ball joints. You do this by jacking up the car --typically with jack stands---and supporting the LOWER CONTROL ARMS so that there is no weight on the ball joints.

Now you can use a small bar and pry and push on things and see what moves.

Do you run headers? I had a 340 in my old '70 for a while (sixpack body) and the headers occasionally "bit" the drag link. Not good

Consider also that there could be something like a broken chip or bearing ball floating around in the manual? box, or even something in the steering column



that's along the lines of what i was thinking, taking the load off the ball joints and prying around on things. just wanted to get some advice to how exactly to go about it all.

don't think it's header hitting the drag link, but i'll look.

and yes, it probably is serious enough that i need to track it down, however i do it.