column shift lever bushing

[MikeB]

Originally Posted by pjmoreland

I'm interested to see if you're able to get one of those installed with a heat gun. I split two of them trying to install them, and I even enlarged the opening on one of them.

That's a good idea about enlarging the hole. I might try that on one of them. Gave up matching the factory paint on the column, so will probably go with black and start assembling things this week.

The "pot metal" shift bowl wobbles a little on the steel shift tube, but I just can't think of a way to tighten it up. Really don't want add weld to the side of the "guide" piece here and then grind/file to shape. Maybe a .002" piece of shim stock epoxied to the ID of the shift bowl? Second photo shows tapered ends which don't help.