Just as an aside, a long time ago during a period when I was too busy to work on my E, I had a garage remove my series two upper {collapsible} column and check why I had side play…for a while after I got it back, I found myself juggling the wheel in the straight ahead position, and some up and down movement also. On examining the inner shaft, I found that the splines had not penetrated forward enough, had not gone far enough for the cotter to locate in the groove, only about 3/8 of an inch was in the UJ causing the initial lost motion as the UJ was twisting to the side before the shaft rotated…you must be meticulous if you’re working on your car for the first time…I have made so many errors in the past I wonder why I am still here…