Help me "steer" in the correct direction.

[chevybill]

I am about to order a flaming river column along with all the accessories to
connect to the manual steering box. Flaming river tech support told me that I had either a 30 spline or 36 spline box stock on my truck. I come home from work and count the splines and come up with 25 splines which excludes the flat spot on the steering box shaft. So do you guys think I should order the universal joint with 30 splines? I know this is the factory steering box.

Thanks for your replies.

[chevybill]

anybody with any ideas?

[lngbed71]

Kinda confused here......I think the 30 or 35 spline referrs to the end shaft from the steering column to the down shaft. Isn't there a rag joint that connects that shaft to the box?

[chevybill]

Yes you are right about the rag joint, so should I count the splines on the rag joint instead of the steering box itself?

[lngbed71]

Yup, count the rag joint splines. I think the end splines on the shaft to the joint are all a standard count. FR should be able to match up the right kit for ya.

[Palf70Step]

You may want to PM greasemonkey. He did swapped out his column as well as replacing the rag and intermediate shaft at the same time. He says it is a tremedous improvement over the rag joint.