Steering Not Centered After Gear/Pitman Arm Work

I had a car decades ago with a lot of wear and was told "your steering sector has too much play". Hey, here's a way to adjust that. Geesh, I was only about 15........... that was a lesson I learned and won't repeat that mistake. Of course I have since learned - besides experience on "don't do that" I went to school and learned WHY to not do certain things. My personality requires a why, not just "don't do that" and that's why it takes longer - if I am to do, or not to do something, it requires why, the whole background.
There are several reasons to not just pull a wheel, move it and center it, tomj outlined a big one.
Of course, some you can't do that with because the factory splines are not even all the way around - they index them in many cases, then there's the turns left to right being equal, and of course, masking the REAL reason things are off.
I hate band-aids - fix it, be safe, make the thing last, don't let something bite you in the butt later because you taped it together and left it that way. 
Also - as I keep saying - we have thousands of people hitting us to figure things out - members, non-members, lurkers, and when we say "just wire it together and it will be fine" we are spreading bad stuff instead of facts, ways to troubleshoot and actually fix things. 
This is a tech area, not the Red Green show LOL -  Harold, what did you do with my duct tape?

billd wrote: LOL - sorry, that's  cobble that's more likely to cause trouble than to fix anything. It ain't a fix.  If a person pulls the steering wheel to "reclock", first, it isn't always possible because the splines are made to not allow that in many cases - for good reason. But finally, you are throwing the steering sector off-center, there's a high-point to that box and moving the steering wheel means you have fewer turns, even if only by a FRACTION, one way than the other, and you run the steering sector in a place it was never intended to run. I guess if I must, even though this has been discussed several other times over the years, I'll drag out books and spend time to show why the makers of steering equipment say "no, don't do that". I know - a lot of shade-treers have done it over the years and say "what's the big deal, it works", it's just plain covering a PROBLEM and yeah, I mean problem, elsewhere, such as bent or damaged parts, incorrect parts and so on, again, it puts that sector in a place it wasn't intended to run going down the road.  Early cars we used a punch to mark, but I've noted that many of the cars I've worked on lately, including my own, only went on one way - likely the factory fixed that issue with people simply moving the wheel to correct wear or damage. Do whatever - it  isn't my car, but simply moving a wheel is possibly only covering something bad or wrong elsewhere. If I remember correctly, with the steering wheel straight,  he said he had exactly the same number of turns left as he does right - meaning the steering wheel isn't "off", something else is. Plus, the wheel was centered before the sector change, so likely he never had the wheel off just to change sector and/or pitman. So the wheel shouldn't be in question. (the flex joint (some call "rag joint") parts are indexed, are they not? Meaning those can't be put back on incorrectly.......?)

pretty much here. I dont pull the wheel off to clock it been my experience that the rag joint is indexed one way. A good alignment shop will make the wheel centered, (I only go to the one shop). If your wheel is off....either something is bent or worn...or out of line...

You have changed the box and the pit-man and the steering wheel is now off center.

No, the linkage is not correct.