65 dodge dart

Well Gumby (the dude with two club hands) is gonna replace the upper bearing in the steering column while it's out, and it's out because when the car got here it had 1/2 round of play in the steering wheel!
The 1/2 round of play will occur if there are no shoes, spring, seal,and retainer in the steering coupler, just the cross pin. I ordered and received the rebuild kit and a lower seal for the tube. So the upper bearing is rough, I'll replace it, no, it's dry, i'll just clean and repack it, the rubber isolator is fine, so I'm thinking, maybe i'll take the tube and collar and have it powder coated at a place down the street, so i fiddle with the lower connector and I can't get those pins out to save my ***, I'm pulling on the wires and T/S switch to get some slack and, oops, pull the top off the switch. Well Hell!, now I need a switch cause when it came apart one of the contacts flew to another planet in some other solar system, I guess.
Make note of the odometer on this car, I guarantee Ya in ten or twenty years, after I'm long gone, this car will pop up here with the same mileage, some cars just love being home and not driven!