How To Replace your Lower Column Bearing: Better and Cheaper!!!
I buy 67 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 have seen a bearing but I believe it was an early 60's 3 speed standard column shift car. 1962 Dodge
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 sub frame car or Truck?
Like I said 3 speed column shift car as shown in your own diagram. Really! is this the best you can do. Find a diagram for a floor shift column 71 - 76 a-body.
The column in the picture would be from a ‘66-70 B-body, no AC. You can see the 4 bolt foam gasket in these kits.
DMT B Body 1969 69 1970 70 NON AC Firewall Gasket Seal Kit Set Charger GTX | eBay
Mopar B Body 66 67 68 69 70 BASIC NON AC Firewall Gasket Seal Kit Set DMT | eBay
Seems if your knowledge was so extensive you’d know that. You could also have looked it up, after all, the link with that picture lists what cars they’re for.
As far as your collection goes, or what you have and haven’t seen regarding the lower column bearing, it’s completely irrelevant. Clearly they were made. There’s a factory diagram, there’s a factory part number, and there’s even multiple versions of reproduction replacement parts available. The fact that you haven’t personally seen one changes exactly none of that.
You can never just give your facts without an attack on those who differ. I always refer back to this "saying" when you attack. From the movie Christine. " You don't know half of what you think you know ( Shitter ) " LMFAO
I owned more cars then you dreamed of. This 58 had a bearing.
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Oh please. You were the one that started in with the jabs again. You came after me 9 years ago over the same exact thing, it’s literally on the first page of this thread. You were proven wrong then too, but as usual when you’re shown to be wrong you refuse to admit it and claim you’ve seen everything.
And yet for some reason you want to resurrect this old thread with your same old claims, making jabs at me and others that have done this modification.
Clearly, the person here that doesn’t know half of what they claim to know is you. The reference numbers are in the parts manuals, if you don’t like the picture of the manual I posted I’m sure you’re capable of looking up a better one.
The simple fact is that it’s a good modification regardless, so trying to prove it never came on an A-body is meaningless even if it was true (and it’s not).
