How To Replace your Lower Column Bearing: Better and Cheaper!!!

72bluNblu said

Yep, same deal. Some had 2 bolts, some had 3 depending on the year/model etc. There was quite a bit of variation on this particular part. $80 plus $4 shipping. They even have a picture of the nylon insert and bearing as it came from the factory, just in case you've never seen one
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Or if you're not worried about it looking fully original, or if you just had a one with a silly foam insert, you can replace it with an $8.24 ER16 bearing that will work just as well or better. Hence the entire thread.
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SER205-16 1" ER16 Insert Ball Bearing With Snap Ring NEW ER205-16 | eBay

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I buy 70 to 76 cars but at times I buy others and strip them on a monthly basis. I do not have one steering column here with a bearing in it. Why? I recently purchased a 1967 Commando Barracuda floor shift. This car is all original never touched for well over 30 years stored in a truck body. Today I will go look for that famous bearing.
I did a 67 dart column shift car and changed it to a 383. Removed the shift tube and cut the main tube back flush with the firewall for manifold clearance to use 71 HP manifolds and no inner bearing.

Did mopar do strange things and possibly some may have bearings? Yes. But I have none in my large collection of parts and no remnants of any.

The column you have pictured above with the bearing has 4 bolts holding it to the firewall. What is it out of? And what year? Not an a-body! Possibly a rubber mount K-member or sub frame car or Truck?