Sloppy steering

BergmanAutoCraft said

The steering boxes weren't great from the factory when new. 50 years later, they terrible. When suggesting and adjustment on a factory box, nobody seems to do this properly. The first thing you are supposed to do is back off the sector lash. You must adjust the preload on the worm first. Once that is set, then you can adjust the lash with the sector.
Or, treat your self to modern, bolt in steering...Bergmanautocraft.com

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Someone who is not familiar could take this to mean "they just drove terrible." Not true. Before I tore the 67 apart, with modern radials, heavier T bars, a factory anti-sway bar and decent shocks, it handled pretty great. 70-100 on a decent highway? No problem. going around curves? Felt great, a pleasure.

My point is, don't just dismiss stock components as "bad" unless they are actually worn/ loose/ defective.