'63 valiant, steering oddly

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RJG

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Hello FABO,
My 1963 Valiant has been retro-fit with power steering at some point. I replaced many needed ball joints, tie rod ends, pitman arm. Then had an allignment done (by someone who understood the old school cars).
So the car tracks well, but when I turn a sharp or gentle corner in either direction, the car won't correct itself. I have to manually turn the steering wheel back to straight.
I am wondering if this is possibly how some of the old units were, or is there still a problem?
I expect new ball joints can be stiff, but this seems odd to me.
Thanks for any input,
RJG
 
Without actually seeing the car and touching the parts combination the immediate diagnoses is; Not enough castor, power steering requires more that the manual steering and these cars barely had enough for that, though they drove just fine.
 
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