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

Does the bearing pictured above on the old columns hold the steering shaft or the selector shaft? looks to be the selector shaft.

I didn't look at all the columns today worked on the tractor. The ones I did look at had no bearing just a plastic shell that is slid in the shaft not bolted and it is around the shift shaft on column shifts.

I'll look at a bunch of floor shift columns tommorow for that bearing but I don't think there is one here that holds the steering shaft..

I wonder why the top bearing in the steering column is mounted in rubber??.