Steering column 79-81 Camaro experts

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OK guys that have rebuilt columns. My 81 tilt felt loose at the end so looking in my shop manual and also some online like this one it shows a bearing and adapter. Dealer part #s adapter 7805822 and bearing(an actual bearing like a mini throw out bearing)#7805700. And the bearing looks slightly too big to even snap into the adapter!



So I pull the column apart down there as well as a non tilt 79 and both have just a plastic piece like the adapter with just a rubber seal on the inside-#7825647 and outside# 7825648-both numbers dealer can't find. No real bearing on two different columns. So what's up?

Here's a link to pictures of the plastic and rubber seal pieces together and part and the "new" bearing and adapter.
http://forums.performanceyears.com/f...72#post4644572