[Otter74]

Edit: if I turn the wheels to the right I can just barely both reach the steering wheel with one hand and put a hand on the left toe rod with another. The inner end of the tie rod is moving forward and down, seemingly more or less on the axis of the steering shaft. I can put my hand over the boot and the whole thing is moving. No axial play. Which suggests…a rack mount is loose? Bad bearing? When I had the cover plate off to replace the fuel pump the rack mounts looked fine and this noise was present then (it’s been there a while). I can hear it occasionally as a clunk on single-wheel bumps. Explains my slightly odd turn-in feel too.

It would seem to suggest a bad bushing between the rack and the rack housing