O.K. guys---This is how it went. I had a perfectly good Chev tilt column with a column mounted shifter, that I wanted to convert to a non shifter column. I thought that with time and patience, a mechanical genius like myself would be able to take it completely apart, remove the shift lever, remove the pin that locks the steering wheel when in park, and change whatever it is that keeps you from being able to turn the ignition key to start unless you are in park. I would then remove the shifter arm at the bottom, and cover the hole in the column with a sleeve. Then I would install a floor shift. Well------It's 9:00 PM now, and I have been working at this since I closed down my mechanical design business at 4:00 PM for the day. In a word, it can't be done. Not by me anyway, and I'm damned good at this type of thing. I now have 400 small peices, and a bunch of sketches and digital photos I took while attempting this, (so I could eventually reassemble it). As far as I can see, you can only tear these columns down to a certain point, then you run out of fasteners and lock rings to undo, and you still haven't got the shifter sleeve off. I give up. I will now resort to plan B for a steering column, as soon as I figure out what plan B is.