Father-Son 1974 Duster Project

Since we are getting ready to to put the motor back under the hood, I wanted to make a modification/fortification to the outer steering column. I have seen a various screws and bolts run through the cage portion of the outer column to keep the collar where the shifter arm has been cut off from rotating.
We decided to make a piece of sheet metal and tack weld it across the large slot in the outer column and put a plug weld in the middle to keep the inner sleeve from rotating.
It worked out well.