Steering Column Intermediate Shaft w/Upper U-Joint '83-'87 Esprit

[mike.griese]

I am looking for the intermediate shaft and upper u-joint (they come as a unit) for '83-'87 Esprits.  I tried one from SJ but it didn't fit - the splines in the u-joint were about a mm too big for the steering column shaft.  JAE uses the same supplier, so that is likely a dead end.  Lotusbits doesn't list the part.  They look like this:

 

(photo from SJ website)

Thanks!

[mike.griese]

So I'm a bit of an idiot.  I took a closer look at the car, and it appears that when I removed the frame from the body, I must have loosened the steering column and pulled it up into the passenger compartment to help free the lower U-joint from the steering rack.  In short, what I though was the end of the steering column was actually the lower end of the intermediate shaft.  So, yeah.  I already have the part and it's installed on the car.  Sigh.

[USAndretti42]

Never mind. At least you problem is sorted and if that's the only thing you've done wrong, you're doing very well.

[snowrx]

Just getting that thing in there is cause for celebration, never mind what it took to do it.