I posted about this subject yesterday and want to thank Ultradog,Texas, and soundguy for responding. Opened the steering box and found lots of water, a little oil, and a surprising amount of Montana mud!!! Packed mud and rust between the double sector teeth was the cause for the difficult steering. Also, the lower bearing was rusted out and shot. Now I have a question. To remove the lower bearing cup from the steering box, do you use a punch and drive out the plug seen (from underneath)in the bottom of the steering box? This may be a duplicate post, for I tried to post about this earlier and I guess it got lost.