delifting 89 ranger 4x4

[quietrangr]

Ooops, too many 4s in the thread title, and it won't let me edit.

I bought a 1989 4x4 Ranger from Montana in nice shape, but the truck is too cool for an old guy like me, as a lot of 20 year old girls are chasing me. I took off the roll bar, and the sexy, wide tires, but the girls were still after me, so I tried to take off the 3 inch body lift. After a lot of cussing and cutting, I had only the steering extension left to go, but can't seem to find it. I removed the end from the tube where the steering shaft comes through and felt up there about five or six inches from the shaft end, but could find no coupling. Is it possible that a longer shaft was substituted for the original, and I will have to replace it with a stock shaft? When I tried to lower the body back to stock height, the lower steering shafts got cramped over, and the body was pushed back on the steering side, so it must be too long. Thanks for any help you can give me.

 

[hondaxr650]

All of the steering extensions I have ever seen are between the lower shaft and the upper shaft, near the firewall in the engine compartment. About 2 inches long.

 

[quietrangr]

All of the steering extensions I have ever seen are between the lower shaft and the upper shaft, near the firewall in the engine compartment. About 2 inches long.

Thanks for your response. That's what I've seen too, but there is nothing like that on mine. There's about a four inch shaft coming from that goofy joint with the rubber in it, that either couples to or expands to the eight inch or so shaft going to the steering shaft. I've compared the short shafts to another 89, and they look the same, so I'm thinking the steering shaft is extra long, and I might have to replace the steering shaft, or maybe cut and reweld the shaft coming from the steering box. Anybody else had this problem?