[hugger6933]

Did you loosen the shifter pins then insert a 1/8th drill bit and tighten it back up like the sticky say in the FAQ section of the 67-72 home page site? On my 70 it was as bad as anyone had ever seen and we adjusted the shifter and ALL shifter functions returned to normal without the need for the bushings.
Now to tell you what I did once I got my 3OOT shifter adjusted I then decided I wanted to go with a T-5 trans in this truck and I had a van tilt column that I had gotten on the cheap cause the shifter retention pin was wallowed out and had loads of slack. What I did next was I welded the holes on the metal shroud on the top piece to fill in the holes ground them down smooth and on the big knot where the shifter was I ground it off with a die grinder and filled it with short hair fiber strand[ fiberglass infused body filler] on the bottom where the shifter arm came out of the tube I moved it over to the park position and tack welded the arm to the tube so it could never move again. Once all of that was done I sanded and primed all of the tilt column with high build primer in preparation to paint it the color of the inside of my truck or black and I have not yet come to that decision yet. Now what it looks like is a factory floor shift tilt column for a 70 model truck that instead of $450 I have about $50 in. Jim