My wrist took a little longer to heal than I planned and naturally other things came up so it took till now to get back to the PS.

Getting the original gear and column out was pretty straight forward.......PIA but straight forward. Because of the design of the torsion bar suspension and size of the steering gear it's pretty much impossible to get the gear out thru the bottom of the car so the 57-61(?) Mopars have an access panel under the peddles that allows the removal of the column and gear to be removed as a unit thru the passenger compartment.

I've changed out a few of these before so there were no real surprises. I did have to remove the clutch linkage and cross shaft but I kind of expected that.