Took the column apart as far as I felt comfortable found how everything worked. Wasn't able to fix the slop in my tilt but its not really that big an issue. dimmer switch turned out not to be a problem with the linkage but with the switch. I thought from diagrams and such that the control lever retained the rod but actually the rod is kept in place by a a big chunk of the switch that mine is missing. have a new switch on order O'riellys had to have it shipped form out of state so should only be 2 more days till I have it and they are gonna do some price adjustment
. While I was down under there was able to check and clean all my connectors and replaced the time delay relay for my key light ( an option that strangely wasn't supposed to be available on my trim level) so now everything electrical now works in my car.