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You need to see the directions. You pull the whole shaft assy out that is between the firewall and steering gearbox. The one on our Firebird took some pursuasion to get the lower piece off the gearbox, and some trimming with a die grinder on the top connection to get it to go back on after replacing the coupler.
You replace the coupler with the whole assy out of the car. Unless your coupler is already torn in two pieces, it is easier to do it out of the car.
Just below the coupler at the top of the shaft, the upper part of the shaft slips into the lower part of the shaft. The slip joint took some effort to loosen up, I guess 20+ years of abuse and gunk took its toll. After compressing and extending once, the shafts moved okay, with a little effort. The joint is usually covered with piece of rubber tubing sort of thing. If this is missing, you may have a lot of dirt and rust accumulated in the joint.
This post has been edited by CrashTestDummy: Apr 18 2007, 01:46 PM
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