Question about steering

[67mopar]

Hi Everyone
I replaced everything on the front end of 67 Newport Custom including all ball joints, control arm bushings, new shocks, steering box, pitman arm , everything that could be replaced in front end. trouble is now the steering seems like it binds at times, you need to apply force quickly on the wheel to get it past the binding. It is not bad but slight. The steering wheel does not recenter itself like it did before it needs a little help . Then there was new tires and an alignment and it seems to wander a little again not bad but noticeable some times not always.
So all you folks who are smarter than me what could be the problem? i have read possibly the wheel alignment might not have been done correctly?
Hope this all makes sense.

 

[CBODY67]

WHY was the steering gearbox replaced and what brand of unit?

What about the rubber bushings in the lower control arm and the upper control arms?

As to "wandering", there should be NO solid-surface roads which do not have some amount of "crown" in them. This is for water drainage. If they were completely flat, as they appear, "ponding" would happen sooner than later and be major hazards to traffic use.

Does there appear to be "on-center slack" in the steering? "Cross-caster", where caster is more on one side more than the other, can address this a bit, on normal roadways.

What toe-in specs are things set to?

Enjoy!
CBODY67

 

[MoPar~Man]

Is anything touching / hitting the exhaust pipes that might be the cause of the binding?

Did you end up draining / flushing all the old power steering fluid, and if so what did you fill it with now?

You are comparing the steering feel and behavior, before and after this work. Have the tires also changed before vs after? Tire size, or maybe before was bias, after is radial?