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Swapping Steering Wheels / Steering Column Sizes 120-130

posted by  someone claiming to be TexasAmazon on  Tue Mar 27 07:35 CST 2007 [RELATED]

My 65' came with a terrible looking Chevy three spoke steering wheel. I rented a puller and the wheel came off easily enough but what surprised me was when I went to pull the bow tie wheel off my parts wagon, the nut that held the wheel in place seemed to be much larger than the one on my four door (1-1/16" socket vs a 3/4 or something along those lines) Indeed the diameter of the bow tie wheel's steering column splines is much larger than the splined end on my 4 door. I did some looking in the green books and could not come up with much information. Can I just swap out the upper column that runs from the coupler to the wheel from my wagon and be ready to go?







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    Swapping Steering Wheels / Steering Column Sizes 120-130

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    posted by  sdewolfe on  Tue Mar 27 08:58 CST 2007
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    Tyler,

    Just pull both of them and lay them side by side. Same length? Use a caliper to check the diameters. If they are identical diameter and length they will swap. If the diameters are different (can't imagine that) then you'll also have to swap the bearing assembly that hangs at the dashboard. There is a single bolt up high where the dash and firewall meet and two bolts at the shaft end of the bracket.

    Is there an adapter on the shaft out of the 4dr to mount that Chevy wheel? If not, was the shaft resplined? It should be evident by "newer" splines on the 4dr shaft compared to the wagon shaft. If it was resplined it was probably shortened too; the wagon shaft may be longer by the length of the splines -- still OK to use.
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    Mr. Shannon DeWolfe -- (I've taken to using Mr. because my name tends to mislead folks on the WWW. I am a 51 year old fat man ;-) -- KD5QBL







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