Imagine the steeringbox mount is forcing itself left and right when turning. That movement should be limited.
I added another piece of bracing later on.
If all the original welds are intact the box shouldn’t be moving all that much. Flex a little maybe, but unless something is broken it shouldn’t be visibly moving back and forth.
Now, having said that the steering box mount on the K that’s in my Duster now was moving back and forth a good half inch when I turned the wheel when I got it because about 70% of the welds on the steering box mount had cracked and failed. It’s not an unusual place for thr welds to fail.
I box all of the steering box mounts on the K members in my cars, I do the whole Firm Feel style reinforcement that includes seam welding the whole K member, boxing the steering mount, and reinforcing the LCA pin mounts and strut rod mounts.
