Not sure on 95+ columns, but cant you just take off the shifter arm? i know on the Saginaw's you can. That's all i did on my '94, just till i find a manual tilt column
Yeah; you can just take a single bolt out and slip the arm out of the shift mechanism. It'd be a little ghetto but much preferable to leaving the extra, useless shifter hanging there. Truth is you might even be able to remove the shifter and then just get the plastics for a manual column, save yourself the hassle of swapping the entire column. If the shift mechanism interferes with the plastics, it's only a few more bolts to remove it as well.
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Mechanism with shifter removed (the bolt closer to the mech)
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Richard