early A-body Power steering
Depends how good a job you want to do.
[Sorry for the late response, Dan – I've been a bit busy.]
I just wrote an erudite but combative riposte to you, Dan, and then I read over the manual's instructions, and yours, and realized that I had understood them both wrong.
[Sort of a "Step One: Engage Brain, Step Two: Press Send Button" thing.]
I was understanding that one was to feel for play in the take-up of the Pittman arm while rotating the input shaft back and forth.
I see now that the method is to keep the input shaft still and centered, and just bat the end of the Pittman arm back and forth between your fingers.
So, one's fingers are not simply feeling for movement, they are actively moving the arm.
So, yes, one would have to disconnect the centerlink, unless one had the fingers of a gorilla, as it is not the mechanism of the steering box moving, but only the arm moving.
I shall disconnect the centerlink and adjust this when I get a chance.
Thanks!
– Eric