I wanted to post something I fixed on my 1996. I had an annoying amount of "play" in the steering wheel...spent some time looking for where it could be. I got another intermediate steering shaft thinking it had to be in that u-joint at the rack and when I removed my original steering shaft and took off that plastic shroud and found my problem. The 2 bolts that go through the flexible coupler "rag joint" were loose allowing the click-click amount of on center play in the steering wheel. You can't see that because of the plastic cover over that coupler. This might not work for everyone's steering wheel play but wanted to share just in case.