Sloppy Steering

I also redid my box because I had about 15 degrees of slop.  Redid the box and STILL have about 4 to 6 degrees of slop.  Not actual no motion slop, as the pitman arm begins to move immediately, but no action wheel motion is observed for a bit.

Awesome, thanks for the advice. Will also look up the tight steer as a solution as well.

Just a caution, Tight Steer is not meant to remove play in the steering caused by worn or improperly adjusted components. Like Terry stated, make sure all parts are good and adjusted properly. Tight Steer as stated keeps constant pressure on the Sector Shaft through out its travel to make up for worn or inconsistencies in the worm gear and tracking balls.

Definitely have a helper to work the steering wheel while you examine all the steering components. I have a good 15° of play in my wheel. I assumed it was the steering box until I had a friend work the wheel for me. Turned out to be my bell crank. All the slop was there.

I agree on the Tightsteer comment. The job of Tightsteer is to simply keep things tight going from centre of steering motion left to right as these things are setup in the middle of the steering rotation, as you turn right and left they will loosen or should if things are assembled properly. I have rebuilt dozens of these Willys jeeps and never found the need to use this product although it is a neat idea. As others have said there's probably an issue in one or more of the components either wore or not properly adjusted. FYI the steering gear takes 140 oil. Feel free to private message me or even call me I'll be glad to help.