Sorry for the delayed report. I was able to find a new steering cylinder and got it installed just fine. Still it wouldn't work. Fast forward to last weekend (2 years later), I thought the P/S pump was bad. I starting taking off hoses off the pump while the engine is running (one hose at a time). Once I got to the supply hose I noticed no fluid was coming out. I always was under the impression that the fluid came off the main hydraulic container or from the transmission and I was wrong. There is a separate fluid box over the transfer case. So I added transmission fluid and viola, I now got p/w and it works as expected.