Manual steering gear
My 4x4 1980 pickup originally had no power steering. Somebody at some point in time added a power steering pump. One part of the pump had to be grinded off to fit on the bracket (it’s really close to the distributor). In fact when I changed the pump, I asked some questions on here about why I couldn’t get it to bolt on, looked at the old pump and realized they had grinded part of it down. So I put a new pump on it, new gear box, all of the steering components replaced. I still have about 2-3” of play in my steering wheel and it’s slop in the remanned gear box. On top of that, the high pressure hose (also replaced) won’t screw into the gear box far enough to make the flare seat fully. I realized it was leaking last night… I’m about ready to get a manual gear box off of eBay and say fuck the power steering. The only thing is that the manual gear box on eBay says it’s for 79-85 and rockauto has different parts numbers for most of those years (rock auto also does not currently have any gear boxes). I’m at a loss. Idk what to do. Thought about hi-steer but you need at least a 3” lift I think… I just put OME 2” lift kit on it… I just want my steering to not be so sloppy! Mostly just road driving btw. Any help/insight is appreciated.