Switching from power steering to manual- does anyone do this?

I had a 67 Cougar back in the day and kept having trouble with the power assist hydraulic hoses leaking and blowing so I ditched the whole thing. Making it manual steering by default. One day I was at a stop sign making a right hand turn and the pitman arm popped out of the socket I lost all steering and all I could do was beach it up on a curb until the wrecker came.

It`s quite the sensation when you are taking a corner and the wheel just goes slack and spins freely, I felt like the captain of the Titanic trying to miss the iceberg! AHHHH FULL STOP! RIGHT RUDDER HARD! Glad it happened then and not when I was bombing down the highway around 80 mph the day before!
If I recall correctly it needed a different pitman arm for manual steering than the one that let go never had a problem after that. The steering in that car always felt like an ice-cream truck at Daytona!