what is the name for

[fordman]

the shaft that extends from the steering column that goes to the 4wd steering box? extension shaft/ rag joint shaft? coupler shaft? or am i wrong all the way around?

[cep62]

Flaming River calls them steering shafts or slip shafts.

[timmytim]

I always jus say its the end of the column shaft that the rag joint bolts too..

[fordamericana]

You mean the intermediate shaft? The one that has a collapsable section in it?

Like this?

Or...?

I have been eye-ing these for when I finish putting the power steering box in my truck, they collapse in a front end impact, so you dont end up with a steering wheel through your chest...

[fordman]

well if that is what you call it. none of them i have look very much like those.

[fordamericana]

well if that is what you call it. none of them i have look very much like those.

What does yours look like?

[fordman]

actually i have more than one and this thread was made so that i could correctly name these pieces for sales on ebay. i have not taken pictues of them but i know what they came off of and what they fit . you can find these exact same shafts fo rthe manual steerign on our trucks on chevy trucks. kind of amazing. that they are the same but installed backwards. on a chevy.

[fordman]

this is the chevy type as well as our manual type these were also used on power steering in 78/79 4wd. http://www.fordification.com/forum/view ... ot#p371175

the others i have have a ragjoint on one end and a splined end on the other. i have another one from a 80-86 truck that bolts onto the oval steerign column shaft. and has the rag joint on the other end.

[fordamericana]

All the chevy guys I know call that peticular joint a "tulip joint" however, I know theres a real name for. Actually someone else on another post here on fordification identified the joint by name. I just can't for the life of me recall what, or where. LOL Sorry... It is all part of of the intermediate shaft though, it connects the steering shaft to the steering box input. Usually have a collapsable section in them too for front impacts...

Does yours look like this?

[fordman]

i do have one that looks like that. it is from a 80's truck that picture is.