Steering gear break in period?

Darter6 said
Usually that screw is to adjust play.That slight amount of "Give or free play" in the steering wheel before the wheels start to turn.
That also has to be adjusted with the steering straight ahead. Steering boxes are built with what is known as "High Point" that is the center point between the full left and right stops. Say from full left to full right the wheel takes 6 complete turns of the steering wheel. High Point would be half that and should center at 3 turns.
Let me ask you this. When you start the car do the wheels start to turn,left or right on there own with no input from the steering wheel ? OR is it when the car is moving ?

No, there is definitely a dwell with the steering wheel strait, so it feels like manual steering once the car is moving at significant speed and turning along bends requires very minor steering input. Once there's significant turn to the wheel in either direction feeling is varied, with less assist than before, and it feels like a bump or uneven resistance to turning. After even more turning the wheel wants to walk all the way to lock. When stationary it's very minor due to the resistance in the wheels but while coasting at idle it will free wheel to lock and not return to center. It does this in either direction.