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I used an early 80's pickup column in mine. It came from a floor shift truck just like I wanted but I wanted the ignition on the dash and it had tilt. I was able to take it apart and shaved the key switch off the housing and removed the column lock. I sawed off what i could from the key holder then was able mount it in my little lathe and shave the rest down to smooth and made an aluminum plug for the hole and JB'd it in. A bit of grinding and a little bondo and you would never know it was there. While apart i put new bearings top and bottom and a new signal switch in it. Mine had a 48t 1" spline on the bottom and was able to find a u joint from that to DD to complete the hook up. It is a couple inches longer than what I thought I wanted but in the end it worked out very good. My column was bigger than the 2" original, don't remember for sure 2 3/16 maybe so I had to make a new drop from the dash to the column. Got about $60 in parts in it.