Steering shaft length

The shaft is a telescoping tube meant to collapse during a frontal impact.
It is possible to accidentally collapse this shaft handling it if not carefull.
Just pull it back out to the correct length. Some are tighter than others.
Don't pay no mind to the safety nuts on this thread that say their is a nylon
pin that needs replaced. There is no pin. What they think is a pin is a drilled access hole
used to inject the nylon into a cavity between the two shafts. This nylon solidifies as it cools
and becomes a interference fit bushing or glide and will keep the shafts from rusting together.
If the shafts werent able to slide it would defeat the safety feature of the collapsable design.