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: Steering wheel swaps?


Bob70
Sep 1st, 99, 12:31 PM
Will any year steering wheel from a chevelle swap out with another?
I was thinking of putting a 66 malibu steering wheel I have laying around on my 70 malibu, cuz I like the looks of the chrome "half moon" horn bar. Will it fit the 70 column?
TIA

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Bob
Email: bob70@chevelles.com
70 Malibu
66 SS396 conv (project)
Team Chevelle Gold Member #169
New England Chevelle & El Camino Assoc. #085

Strohm
Sep 1st, 99, 12:53 PM
Bob,

The wheel will fit, but the base of the wheel probably won't match the diameter of the column. At some point around '69 or so, they switched to the locking steering column with the ignition switch in teh steering column. Because of this, the steering column on the later models is bigger in diameter than the older ones.

Go ahead and put the wheel on and see how it looks.

Strohm

[This message has been edited by Strohm (edited 09-01-99).]