Sloppy Steering Repair (In Process)

When I first test-drove the Jeep it wander all over the road, really sloppy steering. Someone had installed a stabilizer across the drag links but it didn't seem to help this problem. In negotiating the final deal with the seller, he said he had put in a new bell crank, (which helped a lot, his words). but that he noticed wear on the right socket. He ordered one and sent it to me in the mail because it arrived after I had bought the Jeep. All this activity was brought on by analysis by a friend of mine from Walla Walla who decided that problem was not in the steering gear box, but in the linkages at the front.

When the right socket arrived I found that I didn't have the tools to replace it and so took the Jeep to a local mechanic who installed the right. In the process, however, he found that the sloppy problem was in the steering gear box. He took it apart and found that the worm gear on the steering column was shot. I have ordered a horn button kit, upper and lower bearings for the steering column, a steering column, a gasket for the steering box plate, the short and long bushings and a seal for the sector sector shaft. They should arrive by the end of the week.