The belt is tight. And there are no u joints to inspect. Its a solid steering shaft all the way to the box. The steering is finicky. The firt time it happened, the fluid was a hair low after I took it for the first test run out behind the old rock quarry. It didnt happen till after I got back into town 2 blocks from my home. That felt like loss of power steering. The faster i went, the less i noticed, the slower i went, the harder it was..... Today I went to turn the corner leading up to my apartment and it would barely move at all. I was really wrenching on it as I was a hairs breath from taking out a brand new duramax I just inspected this morning. I mean it would barely even turn a half inch at a time as I was cranking it. After about 3 to 5 seconds worth of cranking it, all was well and I had PS again. What it would do earlier today was move about a half inch, freeze, then move again a half inch. And it kept doing that. I was at about 20 mph at the time, and both times PS problems came up, it was still hot out, and the vehicle had been up to prefered op. Temps.