Steering shaft removal

If you can easily pull the sections apart then you'll know it was collapsed. You usually see more plastic oozed out where it was injected in those two holes but it looks like the shaft was cleaned up.

Here's what the old repair kit looked like:



I don't know for sure if you can lose the shift tube. Other guys say they did but on mine one of the column sections is secured via the tube, so no, I couldn't.