Switching to Manual Steering

Be sure and center the turning of the box before putting the arm on. (duh)
It has four master splines as I recall.

So quick question on that. Is there a standard procedure for accomplishing this

My thought was that I'd need to loosely connect the arm to the box and the rest of the linkage and make sure it's all centered before buttoning everything up...which of course may require pulling the column off of the box again (or pulling the steering wheel, I suppose)...am I creating more work for myself?

Thanks...