steering column question

[sebring+]

Surfed web for about three hours, couldn't find a good answer.
I have a 72 SSP with a slapstick. Straight steering column, no shifter, tilt or tilt-a-scope on the shaft. I noticed the shaft as it protrudes out of the tube to the steering box is just flopping
around in the tube. It seemed to me there should be a bearing or bushing to support the shaft in the lower end of the tube.
Like i said no shift levers or anything else because it is a slapstick.
Just the shaft sticking out of the tube but nothing supporting the shaft within the tube. Anything that was there must have just completely fallen apart because the steering box adapter is in place on the end of the shaft. That would need to be removed in order to slide any bushing/bearing off the end.
Even the 72 manual didn't list any illustration or service for a straight non-column shift slapstick steering column. Only had
tilt, tilt-a-scope and column shift with the levers sticking out of the lower end of the column. I started checking with some of the suppliers but they weren't really clear on the application. Soooo... does anyone know what I need at the bottom of the steering shaft tube to support the shaft inside the tube just above the steering box adapter on a simple shaft/tube slapstick car? And/or where to get one?
I can post a picture of the invisible part that I'm sure is supposed to be there tomorrow.
Thanks.

 

[Cmmopar]

Column lower Bearing

http://www.billrolikenterprises.com/proddetail.asp?prod=2883542

Seal

http://www.billrolikenterprises.com/proddetail.asp?prod=3575228-PW

 

[Seventy]

Do you have a picture of it, I went through this with my 70 column, turn out nothing does in there on mine, there are no holes for the bearing like on other models. The only bearing on mine is the bearing between the brush tube and the lock out...

 

[5.7 hemi]

That's cause 70' is a one year only deal........went thru that on my uncle's 70' RR.

 

[sebring+]

lower column pic

Here is a pic. Of the shaft sticking out of the tube on its way to the gear box. The white plastic ring pops in and out by pushing three tabs, but as it sits installed there is about 1/2 inch of slop in the shaft. It sure seems that there should be more in there to take up all that slop. It doesn't appear as if it were ever disassembled. ???? Of course once the end of the shaft is installed to the steering box there wont be any play but it sure doesn't look right to me.

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Cmmopar,
Thanks for the link! I think the second picture is correct and the only part that my column is missing is the rubber donut ring. The white plastic is there and in good cond.
I dont think the first pic of the bearing could be installed in the tube on this 72 slapstick steering tube.

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Column lower Bearing Cmmopar


http://www.billrolikenterprises.com/proddetail.asp?prod=2883542

Seal

http://www.billrolikenterprises.com/proddetail.asp?prod=3575228-PW

Cmmopar
Thanks 4 the link! The second part is the correct one for my car. The whit plastic is there and in good cond. But the black rubber donut ring is not. I guess i need a rubber ring. The first picture of the bearing could not be installed on this 72 slapstick
column.
thanks again.

 

[sebring+]

Ok, I'm pretty sure that on this 1972 satellite sebring plus with the slapstick console shift
The only bearing is up at the top of the column by the steering wheel. Like Seventy and his 70 Cuda'. And at the lower end of the tube is only a white plastic ring with a rubber seal inside to keep dust, oil, water etc... out of the column tube(the second part that Cmmopar listed above). The support of the shaft in the tube at the lower end, as far as I can determine is from the shaft adapter connecting to the steering box.
Thanks for the inputs!

 

[Cmmopar]

Diagram of column and pics here may help:



http://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/showthread.php?t=57992

ebay pics from this link may help too:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/71-74-Cuda-Challenger-71-73-Mopar-B-Body-Steering-Column-Seal-/400983706885

 

[sebring+]

Thanks Cmmopar,
That is the only illustration of the standard floor shift column that i have yet to see.
That is what I have.

 

[Moparparts]

The seal was foam from the factory it wasn't rubber