'70 Dart 392 Project; what direction?

Have to trim the outer tube back to just about the firewall. Thus, moving the plastic bushing/bearing back too. My son has a 73 Scamp with 6.1/904 with factory column shift. Factory K and suspension.

Perfect. I haven’t even inspected the column shift mechanism inside, but is it easily removed? Same question for gear shift indicator? Thank you!

Mike