Anyone replace their steering rack...

[g300d]

...at all, or recently?

The slight clunking on rough roads and when seesawing the wheel left to right at a stop is in the rack.

Just noisy, no leaks at all.

Online it seems people with this problem replace the whole rack assembly.

There are ZF remans at $800 to $1,500 or so.

I saw someone here mention putting in an ATSCO which is around $500.

Saw that A1 Cardone has them too for about the same as ATSCO.

Then I saw an Eastern European company that sells rebuild kits, havent been able to price it yet and not confident about tearing into it, especially if it turns out the housing or shaft is too worn to be reusable.

Looking for opinions on how to go about this.