Hi I’m new to this forum. Been an auto mechanic for 40 years. Got a massive leak from my steering gearbox. So I’m gonna remove it for ease of working on. The leak is at the top cover and I can’t get the splined shaft out. So on the bench will be better. My problem is I can figure out how to remove the steering intermediate shaft. I have both 12 mm bolts removed at the upper and lower u joint but the shaft does not telescope. So I am stumped on how to remove it from the gearbox