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Re: please explain power steering components
To use a collapsible shaft, you also have to have a collapsible column.
I'm thinking that the 79 Van column was collapsible though somewhere between 70 and 71 GM switched to collapsible columns on the C series trucks. I may be wrong but if it has one solid tube all the way down it is not collapsible if it looks like it has one tube inside the other that cold slip if forced it is collapsible.
The Rag joint is like this one and you will have to get the correct U joint that has the teeth in it to slip on the end of the shaft.
You need to know the diameter and spline count of the shaft and then get a U joint that goes from that spline count to DD for the shaft to go on.
https://www.1aauto.com/steering-shaf...9/1206549/1979
The cool factor is it doesn't have that ugly key switch on the column.
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