Rapom's Rocket - just another Duster build thread

rapom65 said
Well it looks like I'll be yanking the column back out and tearing it down. Found a ton of slop, about .25" up and down, not in the steering shaft bearing which was a good tight fit to the shift tube. All the looseness was in the fit of the white nylon bushing of the shift tube to the outer column tube. So I'm going to see if I can eliminate the shift tube/nylon bushing and the bearing/spring/retainer stuff off the steering shaft to fit a collar bearing in there to tighten things up.

If you're converting over to a floor shift, you can lose all of that stuff. That's exactly what I did with mine.

You only need the shift tube if you're keeping the column shift. Otherwise, you can just toss it. Once you've gotten rid of that you just take the spring and the rest of that garbage off the end of the steering shaft. Then you can ditch the nylon spacer and just use the column bearing.

I'm sure you've already seen my threads on it, but here they are anyway. You can see that I used the exact same column jacket and lower housing that you have.

http://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/showthread.php?t=228103

http://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/showthread.php?t=228107