79 GMC Sierra Steering Column Advise

[79GMCSierra]

Hey guys thanks for all your suggestions. Much appreciated.

So my truck has a floor shifter and now works pretty good after I tightened it up LOL! I guess I'll just stay with the floor shifter and forget about converting it back to 3-On-The-Tree. Called a salvage yard that deals in older vehicles and they told me that the 3-sp column shifters are hard to come by. Not helping my situation...

So, now I'm on to finding a truck or car that has a floor shifter and buy just the parts I need, which would be the column covers just forward of the steering wheel hub, that goes through the dash.

The section that houses the shifter lever was completely broken off the column from the attempted theft I mentioned above. So with the floor shifter working good the column covers should do the trick. Took the column out of the truck yesterday and went through it completely. All cleaned up and lubed. Now I know more about shifter steering columns then I ever wanted to. Oh well knowledge is power!

Back to the salvage yard...