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General thoughts.

Why are you changing? Too hard to steer? Might be, might be other problems. I was REALLY happy with my manual setup, after getting "everything right" except I'm old and rather crippled/ weakened, and manual steering just might not be "my thing."

If it is HANDLING you can improve things a lot with a manual box, and there are faster ratio setups available here and there


If the car has a manual column shaft, it is too long and will need to be changed. If the car was originally power, and converted using a power column shaft, look for an additional spacer/ adapter along with the factory flex joint

Investigate aftermarket box called "Borgenson" there is a distributor on this board. No idea if it will fit your combo, but they are smaller than a stock Mopar

Stock Mopar power/ manual boxes have two spline sizes and thus two different pitman arms. You'll need to be aware and research that.

If you get involved swapping parts for whatever reason, there are several pieces which must "go together." These are up through 72, and 73/ later. They are, the idler arm, pitman arm, center link, and of course the steering box (splines) must fit that pitman arm

You can use the above "whole setup" in any year 68/ later clear up through 76 IF you group them together. 67 is different......... . This is because 67 has a one year only idler arm mount (with original K member) and so must use the 72/ earlier steering setup.