the day to day grind

So, I dropped the steering column to get the instrument cluster out of my 69 Valiant. After I re-installed the cluster, and bolted the steering column back up, I seem to have aquired a grinding noise when I turn the wheel in either direction. I dropper again and tried to tighten each bold evenly... the grind is still there. Is there something I'm missing here? Any thoughts?

manual steering is not actually impacted.

As always... much appreciated.