Cunningham Machine Upper/Lower Steering Shafts?

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chevyrider838

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@Cunningham Machine I ordered the Cunningham lower a while back for my ‘99 K1500 Classic and it’s great, however, I’m trying to install the Cunningham upper now but I’ll need to turn steering wheel 90 degrees to insert the upper into the steering shaft at the steering wheel. Website states that this could happen if you don’t have the Cunningham lower…but I do!!
Is this normal or did I get one with the incorrect orientation? The Cunningham upper is horizontal on one end and vertical on the other end. Can I install like this?

I’ll wait to hear back from you guys before continuing install. Thanks

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Below is the original upper that came out…same orientation on both ends unlike the Cunningham.
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i have installed the lower shaft with the set screw up and down,could do it sideways so it goes in correctly,
 

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A picture is a thousand words,This is what i mean by up and down setting of the set screw This is my old stock shaft with flaming river spline u-joint.

I personally have the lower Cunningham shaft for a 3" body lift and a stock upper u-joint on my Tahoe with the stock Intermediate shaft
 

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Here is the stock u-joint version that comes on some of the gmc/chevy's so you can see the orientation as well
 

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A picture is a thousand words,This is what i mean by up and down setting of the set screw This is my old stock shaft with flaming river spline u-joint.

I personally have the lower Cunningham shaft for a 3" body lift and a stock upper u-joint on my Tahoe with the stock Intermediate shaft
Here is the stock u-joint version that comes on some of the gmc/chevy's so you can see the orientation as well

I really appreciate it. Cunningham Machine ended up responding as well through Facebook as well. Issue solved. Thx again!
 
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