I talked to our local carquest this morning, turns out the rack that I have is an odd-ball rack with a 2-in steering shaft. He cannot find another in any of their warehouses. He said to repair this one would be a remove and send up and repair,.This tells me that this rack has probably been repaired several times and is probably garbage by now. He can get me the more common one That's has a shorter shaft, but he is not sure how much shorter it is. Worst case scenario I'll just have to put a longer section of DD steering shaft to reach and then I will also be using more common rack. I know I said I wasn't going to bother with warranty again, but I will give them one more shot because it's free and I'm Dutch lol.