I am pretty sure you can take that nut off the lever and reorient it so it’s straight up when closed. I did something similar with an identical valve to keep from smacking into the shutoff for my outside garden faucet.
heres A Blast from my past as I never could fix but found a way to keep this thing from tearing the wheel out of my hands and it drives like power steering too. I saw someone’s idea of putting A 3/4” flat roller Bering under each steering post to make it steer easier. It really makes a huge...
