Steering column install

[Swing70]

First off I'd like to say hi. I've been looking around the forum and it seems like a great site. Glad I found it.
Now to the nitty-gritty. I have a 1970 Swinger that I took the dash out about 3yrs ago. Just started putting it back together and the one piece I couldn't find was the steering shaft coupling. So I went to local auto wrecker(turners in Fresno Ca. Great place. Lots of good mopar parts.) and got a replacement one. Ordered rebuild kit and was attempting to install when I ran into problems.
The steering shaft seems to short. Did I get one for a manual? Mines power steering. Are they diffrent? Am I missing something? Is it because it's some sort of a split shaft? I have no clue. Please help lol

 

[GMachineDartGT]

If its too short it was for a power and you are going to manual requiring a longer column? All columns that are collapseable are actually the same. There is a shear pin in the collapsable section that has 2 lengths for power the other manual.

 

[Swing70]

Thanks for the reply. The car has power steering with a power steering column. I guess my question is are the steering coupler off a manual steering car shorter than the power steering ones? I didn't specify manual or power when I got the part from auto wrecker. Thanks

 

[pauly v.100]

couplers are the same, you might just have the shaft compressed in the housing. try give her a yank.

 

[Swing70]

Excellent. I'll give that a try. I thought that might be the case. Thank you

 

[daliant]

The manual steering coupler has a larger diameter on the spline end than a power steer coupler. There's also different length couplers depending on year and body style. The power steering column is shorter than a manual column so if you had the wrong column it would be too long rather than too short.