Do Ford use the same diameter/spline count for steering collumns? Mine is mk2 escort and if another colum will fit the uj knuckle, then I could try that.

Looking at options to bring wheel coloer to me and there was a F27 at stoneligh the one for sale at £ 15 K that uses mondeao collumt so got me thinking.

Is ther any data about the column ends?

Used a Sierra column connecting to an Escort rack, same as a large number of other builders with no problems . Had to extend the lower link
but that was easy enough to do .