steering coupling??????

Burdar, thanks for the info!!! It is a manual steering column. That's exactly what I was trying to say but of course screwed it up! The inner shaft had to be slid down further to go into the coupling. The inner shaft just didn't want to move to easily. I'm at a point where the shoes are at the top of the coupling and I'd like to seat them to the bottom of the coupling. Just not sure how to do that without gouging the inner shaft. Thanks for making a bit more sense of my post:)))