How To Replace your Lower Column Bearing: Better and Cheaper!!!

67dartgtgo said

I don’t know much about most of the mopar world but I do know my stock 67 floor shift power steering car column had a plastic insert with a lower ball bearing and spring with a collar held in place with a set screw. Was all original when I rebuilt my column.

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My 1968 Barracuda, automatic floor shift car, had been in storage from 1980 to my purchase in 2010 had a lower column bearing as shown in the 1968 FSM and mentioned in this posting. I replaced the factory lower column bearing with one of the ER16 bearing when I rebuilt the steering column in 2016 and it functions fine. I replaced the top column bearing with an aftermarket OE style replacement bearing. I used the ER16 bearing on the bottom as it is much more reasonably priced than the aftermarket OE style bottom bearings that are currently available.