Steering Clunk

Just an addition or two to this, after having fixed this issue 3 to 4 times the alignment grooved are impossible to find, so keep the steering straight when doing the fix. Also, the splines can be accessed from within the car, not under the hood. The bolts to separate everything are pretty much at the firewall where the steering column leaves the interior. You will not be able to completely separate the splines without removing the carpeting, so reveal as much as possible and smear the Mazda super grease and it and slide the splines back and forth adding more grease each time.