MANUAL STEERING FOR DAILY DRIVER

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I changed my '69 Dart over to power steering from manual because I have major shoulder damage on both sides.
Now I can drive the car and not hate it.
I have (which I believe) is a firm feel box with a slant 6 Saginaw pump.
I bought the box used off a guy that changed his '72 Swinger over to manual and got it cheap.
Also, it has a rebuilt steering coupler on it which helps a lot with the typical ''wandering'' feeling our older cars with power steering are known for.
So yeah, put me under the heading of a ''sissy ***'' if you want to...
And I have sure owned plenty of cars with manual steering and I didn't have much of a problem driving them when I was younger.
To name a couple of them, I had a '69 Super Bee 4 speed and a'69 Coronet R/T 4 speed.
They were a ***** to parallel park, but again, I was a lot younger then...
 
How do you determine what the ratio is? Is it printed on the box? Mine takes so many turns I was thinking about adding a suicide ball to the steering wheel.
I believe a 24:1 box is 3 1/2 turn lock to lock
16:1 2/ 1/2 turns
Don't know about 20:1

16:1 manual box may present parking difficulties

16:1 box solved the steering/ headers clearance problem on my Dart with Doug's D453 headers
 
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