IHADAV8.com - Turbo Buick Tech, and Nonsense
Tech Area => General Buick Tech => Topic started by: daveismissing on November 19 2011, 09:46:45 AM
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Gordy, do you have a picture of yours installed?
Their website is lame.
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If he doesn't, I will try to remember to take a pic of one of my cars
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I don't (which is odd), and I won't be able to for a couple of weeks until I get the car back.
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What's the one that sticks on? Glues on?
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What's the one that sticks on? Glues on?
Glue?
The one I have uses rivets. I think you can also buy one with a kryponite style lock (the orange ones that Kirban and a few other vendors used to sell).
The Steadfast column guard comes in black and I tried to have mine painted to match but it's a bit lighter grey than the column.
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It's held on by a "captured" roll pin set up. Make sure you go through and check all the parts in the column before installing it or it's a total bitch to get off.
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It's held on by a "captured" roll pin set up. Make sure you go through and check all the parts in the column before installing it or it's a total bitch to get off.
Got it.
If/when I do get one, I would rebuild the column, put in a new turn signal switch, stalk, lock cylinder/etc
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I installed this one in about 1995. Probably have not cleaned it since according to these pics. I did not paint it as I thought maybe it would discourage someone from trying to pop the column if they saw it. As said above, it is a clam shell held together top and bottom with blind roll pins. Takes a cut off wheel to get it off. Covers the key cylinder as well.
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I would like it more if it had a flat piano hinge or something on the top. I will probably still get one - I've grown weary of replacing steering columns.
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Indeed, it would blend nicely when painted if not for that top bit.
Maybe the steel is springy enough to wrap without a hinge?
Thank you for the pictures Steve.
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From what I remember about them they're pinned top and bottom. No hinges on it.
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Indeed, it would blend nicely when painted if not for that top bit.
Maybe the steel is springy enough to wrap without a hinge?
Thank you for the pictures Steve.
I doubt it would be flexible enough to slide over without doing any damage to the stock column
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It is not flexible at all. The joints are not particularly noticeable unless viewed from the camera angles. Ot better than those big bulky locks that people used to buy
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I thought it would bug me, but it doesn't...I wound up putting grey velcro strips in lieu of the black stickers that you see on Steve's car (because I couldn't find matching grey stickers and I didn't want people to be able to see the pins and think they could just knock them out). I've seen a a few pics where people used that area to mount a tachometer.