Hi All, not new here but never posted much. Having a bit of trouble with the steering gear in my raider also, and it's driving me nuts...

Tightening up the adjustment did little for it, so I got a cardone reman, and now that i installed it (with a new pitman arm) it's got even more play in the center, and feels too tight at the extremes. I thought they were adjusted at the factory. Did I get a bunk gear?

Update: Bled it again this morning, adjusted the screw by a full turn in 8th turn increments and it did little for the play between input and pitman shafts, it still translates to over an inch at the wheel (and even worse than the original). It's too snug to really tighten any further, even while turning the steering shaft back and forth, and it already does not want to return from the right. The ball-screw is the only other thing that can be loose in there, right?

P.S: If You're in the market for a replacement, stay away from cardone; it came covered in a black 'paint' that had wide cracks all over it and just flaked right off, so I had to soda blast and re-paint it myself. The threads for the return line were not cleaned out or deburred properly, so when i first tried to screw it in a large metal shaving caught and embedded itself in the bottom thread of the fitting, good thing i backed it out to take a closer look and pick it out (and not just kept going thinking it's tight from the paint) or I would have buggered the threads.