[V8Lover]

Hello, looking at an age old thread on L322 steering column tilt failures and a picture of the broken part, the lugs have broken off the tilt adjuster in my 2003 TD6 and the column drops on to my knees. I have the column out, can anyone who has successfully dismantled a column tell me how to get the broken collar out? It looks like the upper column and joint (with steering locking mechanism) should slide out of the splined lower half, but for the moment I don't want to exert too much force on it. Once out I will mill the surface on the collar and screw on a new locator with lugs which should be far stronger than the useless cast ones.