Steering has been sloppy with about 30 degrees of slop since I've had her. So I set out to right that a few weeks ago. When one of the wee ones was jerking about on the steering wheel I notice the pitman arm was shot. I assumed that would fix it. Not so much. So I decided to work on tightening down on the steering box, no luck. Then I checked the rag joint. The nut wasn't tightened down and it was just slipping til it caught.
Could have easily ended up wrapped around a tree...
I decided to also replace the steering box, as it was leaking. It took a lot of searching, but the replacement part I found was at O'Reilly's, part # 27-7501. Now she is nice and tight.