The only difficulty I had was getting the steering shaft back on the splined input to the rack. I fixed the rack on first, then found I couldn't make the column shaft slide far enough back up its splines to let me put the lower end on. I had to remove the rack again and engage the splines first or at the same time.

If you are separating the ball joints using a wedge and hammer, it's more effective to hit in line with the drag link - it gives more effective resistance to work against.