super stiff steering

Make sure you have a box with bearings instead of bushings. The bushing style are a bastard to steer on the ground. I thought for sure my man BJB above would have mentioned this he knows everything about suspensions. He owns an Challenger he put over 70k on and is just the cats meow.

Bearing style I believe were found in 62-72 b-body cars. But I have seen them in many other models. Most boxes you buy from box stores years ago are bushing style. So if a box was replace it is now more then likely bushing. Why? There was more out there , Cheaper to rebuild and more profitable for the suppliers. I am sure BJB has better info then I do. He knows everything. Do not use any fishy information. Do your own research check the date code and PN#.

I believe that is where I would start looking. I have several bearing style I saved. Over many years of parting cars there weren't many manual steering cars except for Performance B-bodies with the bearing style. They are all small sector shaft boxes that I have. I kept them for race cars but now the best way to go is a rack.