Thanks for that info and that’s good to know about the play and it has some tolerance. I just swapped the belt and noise is gone. Thanks for the replies, yall.
Pretty much what I guessed, pump makes no normal power steering gone bad noises, so I’m throwing the new belt on to see if that changes anything. Was hoping to go camping early in the morning but bleh. Thanks.
My 2016 doesn't get many miles on it since its an extra vehicle. Mostly use it for camping / trail riding. Few weekends ago did some snow wheeling that had a lot of mud / ice / snow and everything else you could image. Some of the mud / water crossings were 2' deep or so (broke my bumper but...