In/out play in coupler

They have clips now for that. The collapsible steering was on a splined shaft that was held by a plastic pin iirc, it would sheer in an accident and would telescope into the other nested part as well as the expanded metal column crushing. maybe your pin is broken?
are you referring to the injection moulded collapse pins inside the tube? If those were broke would not the entire back half of the column pull out? I was referring to the dowel pin in the diagram on the back side of the coupler? Sorry if im talking stupid this is new to me. Im prob honna have to just pull the whole deal and engineer it from scratch rather than just fix one thing