Collapsed Steering Shaft
For one thing if the shaft is already bottomed it cannot be installed. Another What does the caged portion have to do with the integrity of absorbing energy. I hope you are not saying that the column shaft stops the front end of the car from collapsing. The two shafts coming together just allows for the shaft to get shorter. along with the perforated column which allows the column to be able to move forward as the steering box is moving back.
Those plastic filled holes do not have any energy absorption at all. Drop one on the floor on end from 6 inches and they shear and the shaft collapses. Just standing them up in the corner at times collapses them. That is why I hang them or lay them down. You have to start thinking with your "Dipstick Son"
For one thing if the shaft is already bottomed it cannot be installed. Another What does the caged portion have to do with the integrity of absorbing energy. I hope you are not saying that the column shaft stops the front end of the car from collapsing. The two shafts coming together just allows for the shaft to get shorter. along with the perforated column which allows the column to be able to move forward as the steering box is moving back.
Those plastic filled holes do not have any energy absorption at all. Drop one on the floor on end from 6 inches and they shear and the shaft collapses. Just standing them up in the corner at times collapses them. That is why I hang them or lay them down. You have to start thinking with your "Dipstick Son"
