440 Demon Almost Ready

I have a Indy headed 440 in my 71 Demon with TTI 2 inch headers and I'm having issues with the steering coupler hitting the header tube..The coupler is the 3 inch piece ..Did you run into the same issue and if so what did you do to fix the problem?.. I've seen where some have used the flaming river universal joint but I really hate to cut a factory original manual steering shaft..

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Mine is a little different. It is still really close though. I am using an ididit column.