Sounds like the top bearings are gone.
The IH built Cub Cadet columns (like you have) aren't that hard to rebuild and with the exception of the Original and of corse the different tube and shaft lengths they are all the same ("Ross" brand box).
Pull the column out, using the exploded view as a guide, take it apart, inspect the parts to determine what's bad... Heres the tricky part... Go to your local JD dealer and look at his exploded view of a JD 110 column, point out the parts that are the same as the ones you need to the parts guy and tell him you want them (JD 110's use a "Ross" brand box as well and JD charges quite a bit less for the same parts than your Cub dealer will). If there are any other parts that you need that are different than the JD parts, go to your local Cub dealer and get them there, but you shouldn't need to do that.
I think there are rebuilding instructions somewhere in the tech. section here, all you need to do is follow them to put your column back together.
10 different guys will give you 20 different ways to put the tube back in the gear box so it will say put, so I'll leave that part up to some of the other guys here.
Good luck (but you probably won't need it).
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