Don't know Little red specific, but a lot of Mopar columns had a steel spring clip the clipped over the plastic bushing at the top of the column mount that was used as a ground (usually on just one side of the column or the other). The steel clip fit between the column support and the column itself, over (or around if you will) the plastic spacer in the column collapse part of the top column mounting. If that was broken, or is missing, the column could loose its ground.