The research took more time than the actual fabrication. Luckily I found a thread where orangewagon did a very similar thing and I copied and adapted it to my application. Really it was a matter of cutting out the mounting piece from the original column, mock where the column needs to go, mark the mount for location, and weld it. It was actually very straight forward and easy. If you fabricated the mount from scratch, that would take longer and a bit more difficult. That's why I sacrificed the old column. The only other fabrication part was welding in a new flat piece of sheet metal to the firewall support and cutting a hole for the bearing. That part was pretty simple as well. I couldn't really tell you how long it all took but I didn't have a whole lot of time in it compared to other fabrication I've had to do on the car. I bet I spent at least 5 times the amount of hours making that dash insert.
