It can't be pushed anywhere, its supported on 2 bearings: steering box and steering column unless his steering column is shifted inside? That's why I never got the lower column 'bearing' as it would be the 3rd 'bearing' on the steering shaft.
It can move around quite a bit, the steering coupler provides quite a bit of movement and the top bearing is so thin it provides very little control at the bottom of the column jacket.
And the factory put a bearing at the end of the column jacket on most of the manual steering, stick shift cars. Not to mention the column shift cars that had a bushing and a bearing there that had the additional effect of centering the steering shaft in the column jacket and supporting it with a bearing. I didn’t make up the bearing at the end of the column, I just replaced the really expensive factory bearing and housing with an ER-16 bearing.
