maybe some pictures would help, your description leaves a lot to the imagination - what year truck? are you rebuilding the column or the shifter? how is a '3 on the tree column' different from a '4 on the floor column'? what is a 'spring washer'? what are shifting ears? which bearing "housing" is near one of them? are you talking about the shifter box?

Bill


Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature we find it attached to the rest of the world" John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" me
Some TF series details & TF heater pics & Rust-a-holics Unanimous parking lot