# 1995 Buick Roadmaster steering tug **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Tags:** roadmaster, steering, buick\ **Created:** [November 12, 2007, 2:03am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1995-buick-roadmaster-steering-tug/7177 "2007-11-12T02:03:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tom\_Sawyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a587f6/32.png) [@Tom\_Sawyer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Tom_Sawyer)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 2:03am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1995-buick-roadmaster-steering-tug/7177/1 "2007-11-12T02:03:55Z")
I drive a 1995 Buick Roadmaster that I purchased from my father-in-law seven years ago. From the first, driving it from his home in Florida to my home in New York City, I was a little uncomfortable with the steering at highway speeds. It just seemed I had to make almost imperceptible adjustments constantly to keep it tracking. I took it to my shop and the mechanic said there was nothing wrong. I drive the car about 6,000 miles a year on out-of-town trips about twice a month almost exclusively. it is perfect for the kind of loads I carry, taking my kids and their things back and forth to colleges, hauling provisions to housebound relatives. But I have never been completely comfortable with the steering at highway speeds. About a year ago on one of those trips, on the New York/New Jersey Palisades Parkway, which has a number of relatively high speed, long curves, the steering wheel seemed to give a little tug now and then in the middle of some of those curves. I couldn’t even be sure the car’s steering direction changed, but I sure could feel the tug as if someone had grabbed the steering wheel and given it a little yank. I got a good local mechanic to ride with me and he felt the same thing, which started a process of changing steering parts that continues to this day. I have replaced the serpentine belt, changed out the steering box, flushed and replaced the power steering, replaced the tires, replaced the rear shocks. Every mechanic who looks at it swears the ball joints are not the problem. The most recent shop to take it on is a Buick dealer here in Brooklyn who decided that the problem is the steering dampener, which leaks or sticks or something. He ordered a replacement but it came in as the wrong part for my car. Two different steering dampeners were installed on the 1995 Roadmaster, he said. One is longer than the other. The part that came in was the long version, part #88946549. My car needs the short version, which Buick has discontinued. He couldn’t even give me the part number. So I went to NAPA and Pep Boys and auto parts shops on the web and have been told the part does not exist on my car. My Haynes manual doesn’t show it, although I can see it clearly and also see it on an exploded diagram I got from the Buick dealership. I hate to dump the beautiful and otherwise fine car because I can’t replace the steering dampener, but I can’t seem to find anyone who can even identify the part, much less get a replacement and put it on. Any suggestions?