steering column fix

1 The short answer is "get a floor shift column"

2 One guy on here ground off and filled in the old shifte mount and refinished the collar

3 Removing the linkage is just a matter of throwing it on the bench, tearing it down, and removing the linkage

4 If I can find it, someone else on here posted a bottom bearing repair using an off the shelf pillow
block bearing

Might be this one here:

http://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/showthread.php?t=138527

5 There ARE rebuild kits for those couplers. I see them on "the bay."

Some "stuff"

http://www.moparmusclemagazine.com/..._0308_rebuilding_steering_column/viewall.html