I have always been extremely wary of any steering box that required a bit of tightening to remove this slop. Always seemed that normal turning felt tighter like something was binding. Often thought as a last gasp hopeless attempt to get a few more miles out of a box that was on its final days.

I would be thinking to replace with a new one,,,albeit a real pain with the headers and all. Else I would never feel quite right.

I once had to replace twice a Borgeson on our BB Ebody with 2 inch TTI's. Just barely squeezed it out from the top after removing battery and battery box. Was wondering then if I could have even been able to do same with what I recall was a larger stock box.