Don---I may have the answer to your question. The tilt column that I have has a shifter mounted on the column, and at the end of the column, there is a lever that sticks out thru the side of the column housing. There is a rod which goes from the grommet in that lever, directly to the lever on the side of a turbo 350 which shifts the gears. The shift lever must be in the park position to engage this steering wheel lock pin which you are talking about. (there also is what appears to be a nuetral safety switch mounted about 2/3 of the way down the column, which is activated by the rotating of the inner housing when moving the shift lever. I would be willing to bet that if the column you have is out of a car with a floor shift automatic, the column still has all of the same internal mechanism, but no gear shift lever. Since the lever on the side of the transmission is still going to swing thru the same arc even if it is activated by a floor shift, I would think that the rod which would normally shift the tranny from a column mounted shifter is still used. This would mean that the transmission lever is actually moved by the Lokar floor mounted shifter,but that the rod I am talking about acts as a slave unit to move the mechanism inside your steering column.