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Old 04-05-2014, 10:07 PM   #1
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Original wheel/ late model column

Need some technical expertise. I have a mid 60s pickup wheel that I want to put on an 85 truck column. I know the splines match. Anyone know what it takes to get the horn to work?

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Old 04-07-2014, 10:29 PM   #2
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Re: Original wheel/ late model column

Test for echo..... No one has ever swapped to a modern column and kept the factory steerign wheel?
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Old 04-08-2014, 02:53 PM   #3
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Test for echo..... No one has ever swapped to a modern column and kept the factory steerign wheel?

Sometimes it takes a little while to get to the people who know the answer to your question. This is not Wikipedia ha ha......
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Old 04-08-2014, 05:43 PM   #4
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Sometimes it takes a little while to get to the people who know the answer to your question. This is not Wikipedia ha ha......
Hey, kieth. You shouldn't deliver false hopes(re: "Wikipedia"): you KNOW that you and I know everything--and we'd already revealed all we knew!!!
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Old 04-08-2014, 01:14 AM   #5
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Re: Original wheel/ late model column

One of the adapter kits might do the trick. Here's the Ididit example, I know there are others:



http://www.summitracing.com/parts/id...0040/overview/
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Old 04-08-2014, 09:29 AM   #6
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Re: Original wheel/ late model column

I'm hoping you get some answers here, because I want to do the same thing. Just swapped in a tilt column from a motor home, and want the old steering wheel on there instead of the newer one. I plan to eventually rework it and make it a shallower dish and smaller diameter, but that will have to wait for a while.
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I'm hoping you get some answers here, because I want to do the same thing. Just swapped in a tilt column from a motor home, and want the old steering wheel on there instead of the newer one. I plan to eventually rework it and make it a shallower dish and smaller diameter, but that will have to wait for a while.
I made that same swap--from a 1974 m/h to a 1966 C10--and IIRC, the original wheel bolted right on and the horn worked w/o any mods* at all. BTW: that column had NO key, which made it an ideal swap. *I did tie the wires properly between the 2 columns. ymmv
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Old 04-08-2014, 06:07 PM   #8
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Re: Original wheel/ late model column

So.... The splines are right but the horn button is on the wrong side of the wheel. Grrrr..... Highly disappointing. Anyone want to buy a really good condition 60 wheel?
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