Steering shaft disconnected inside footwell

[plenty]

In the latest twist in my gearbox swap saga, the steering shaft has become disconnected in the footwell, presumably from lowering the rack still bolted onto the subframe with the pinch bolt undone.

What's the easiest way to sort this please? Can I remove the steering wheel and pull the shaft back up to re-insert it somehow?

 

[Louis]

Did you not disconnect the rack before dropping the subframe?

 

[plenty]

I loosened the pinch bolt.

 

[Louis]

I loosened the pinch bolt.

By loosened, you mean removed?

 

[Beauvais Motorsport]

All has to be removed and pressed back in with the right alignment. If you value your time just buy another column.

 

[Krarl]

Yeah you've proper fucked that

Congratulations

 

[Beauvais Motorsport]

The problem isn’t putting it back together it’s aligning it. Heat up the sleeve then carefully tap together, you will see where they originally were due to the rust, but then put back on car and check, out ok repeat that again and hope it’s right..

 

[plenty]

Ah f**k. It's a learning curve all right.

 

[Beauvais Motorsport]

If you want to fix it yourself you can have this for £10 and greatly improve the steering, since yours is already disassembled. 👀

 

[Beauvais Motorsport]

@Advikaz I have 2 here.. 👀😄