OP here.
i should have been more clear.
how about this:
"a google search turns up 11 results, ALL of which are in foreign languages. more than half of those results are foreign eBay listing results by private citizens, whose application listings vary, and are unreliable for obvious reasons (ignorance, conflict of interest,etc). the remaining results have little (and conflicting) information.
before i disable my vehicle and begin an involved replacement procedure of a vital component with this relatively "mysterious" part-numbered steering box, does anyone on this forum have a parts list or resource that can give reliable results? secondarily, does anyone have any ideas why google results related to it are so minimal and competely in foreign languages?"
how's that? like it better than the original?