2003 Lincoln Town Car choppy steering

If you don't have the steering fixed yet I have found that sometimes the bearings in the universals on the shafts between the steering collumn and the steering gear get dry and are hard to move. This is a rather strange design and has several bearings in it. It is very expensive to replace. To check for this problem without taking it apart use an oil squirt can and coat all of these joints with a liberal amount of oil. The excess will drip onto the ground so beware. Mine stopped binding after a couple days of driving.