Steering Rack Removal/Installation

[Rennen]

In the past couple weekends, I have been in a life and death struggle to remove a power steering rack out of a junkyard car. I finally ended up just cutting the steering shaft in half to get it out of the car.

My problem lies in the Universal Joint atop the steering rack, neither side wanted to come out, and since the cross member is below, and the firewall/exhaust manifold is above, there is no real room to "persuade" the shafts out.


Now I obviously can't go cutting through my own steering shaft to remove my current PS rack, and was wondering if anyone out there had any experience with this?