Going to manual from power steering

I have a 16:1 Flaming river steering box in my Duster. I also have 275/35/18 front tires, so the steering effort below 5mph is pretty significant. Above 5-10mph it's awesome, good steering response and the steering effort isn't too heavy. It's a much better feeling than the overboosted stock power steering, although there are ways to address that too. I'm not a big fan of parallel parking, but other than that I love it. And if you're front tires aren't going to be 275's it won't be nearly as much of an issue. ;)

The stock power steering ratio is 16:1, so if you do go with a regular stock manual box at 24:1 you're adding turns lock-lock. I think it's almost an additional 2 turns, the 16:1 boxes are ~3 1/2 turns lock to lock and the 24:1 boxes are ~5 1/2.

If you do switch from power to manual you either need to swap the steering shaft or get an adaptor, the manual steering box requires a longer steering shaft and has a different size end and spline count vs the power steering.