Universal steering couplers

I used some garage ingenuity and fashioned a hand press out of a ball joint tool and some shortened bolts and thick washers. Dowel pin out, didn't have to remove my column to get shaft out. I'm going to tap the shaft, and use a 3/8"-24 set screw with loctite. My universal is stainless steel so I didn't think my tap bit could do the job so I was just going to drill a normal 3/8 hole and let the set screw fit tightly inside it on each end. The loctite should hold the screw in indefinitely but I could realistically take it apart if I ever needed my shaft out for whatever reason.
Sorry for the slow reply. Sounds like you got it though. That's exactly what I did, except my column was out. Good job on the dowel pin tool! Post a pic!