AE86 non-power steering problem

[jondee86]

Get someone to rock the steering wheel back and forth. Just enough
to take up the slack and "bump" the movement at either end of wheel
movement. You get underneath and see if the rack ends are moving
continuously with the wheel, or if just jerks in the opposite direction
each time the wheel takes up the slack.

If the rack does not move with the wheel, you have wear in the rack.

If the rack moves with the wheel, the problem is in one or more of the
inner/outer rod ends. You should be able to pick up where the motion
of the rack gets lost. Yeah, and check that universal the same way.

Cheers... jondee86