What could cause a 1984 Dodge d100 manual steering to not work steering wheel just spins and spins what could it be?

Answer 1

there could be a few reasons for this . the steering wheel splines could be striped , try turning he wheel and see if the steering rod turns where it goes into the the lower part near the steering box if not take the steering wheel off and check the splines on the column.. if it does spin there maybe the possability that the box is bad inside the gears may have split.

- many of these trucks also used a system with a coupler on the gearbox that looks like a stamped steel socket, inside that socket are pieces that resemble "dog bones" often either the coupler itself is severely worn or the pin and etc associated with the dog bones are busted or worn, i would check this before attempting removal of the steering wheel itself. follow the steering rod from the firewall down to the gearbox and then attempt to manually turn this rod with your hand....parts for the set-coupler and the "guts" are under $50