I got my X-mas Grant Steering wheel on today but once everything was put together everytime I would hit the horn button sparks would fly out at the head of the steering column. Made a phone call got an idea what I might have wrong, and realized that I had forgot to insert the bushing I guess without the bushing in place everything was grounding to the column and causing the sparks, but now that the bushing is in place everything is working great. So I guess it's just another one of those cases of when it looks like you can just through it together, you might want to take a look at the instructions first and save yourself the time Later Guys Neal
Read the instructions?! Why...that's sacrilege. We don't need no stinkin' instructions. We're car guys. Uh...good advice.
Hey Dan if my last attemp wouldn't have worked I was thinking about it I hate haveing to take things apart 4 or 5 times when it could have been done the first time. But I would bet the passenger would have been alittle freaked out at night
ok here you go, didn't want to post any pics yet because I still need to take the column apart andget ride of the old column shift stuff on it. going to do that this winter
Very nice-looking steering wheel. Grants are a bit small for my personal taste but I'm glad you are happy with it. By the way, you can easily knock-out the pin that attaches the column-shift lever. The "nub" will still be there but it will look a lot better for now until you can do the complete conversion...
I guess in this case, you really can't take assembly for GRANTed without reading the instructions! [Couldn't resist]! Nice wheel, Neal!
mav.73, i see the pic. he posted but i don't see the sparks . maybe he needs to take it at night without a flash ..frank...
Neal, Nice looking steering wheel. I was also admiring your speedo/tach combo. What type of gauges are those? Was it hard to install them in-dash like that? Thanks. John B.
Thanks guys T.L. it is going to take awhile to get used to the smaller wheel, I really like a larger steering wheel but that is the one I got for X-mas so I can't complain to much John those are Stewart Werner gauges, no it really wasn't that are to do, but unless you want to butcher your wiring harness under your dash I wouldn't do it. I can put it all back like it was if I wanted to but I had to snip alot wires and rerun alot of them too. And I would say the hardest part about those gauges was getting the gas gauge to work right, they work off of omhs (spelling) and they send you a sending unit to use but they wanted me to cut a hole in the top of the tank and I didn't want to do that, I guess if you had a fuel cell in the trunk it wouldn't be too bad but I wasn't going to cut a hole in my gas tank. So my dad and I figured out a way to get their sending unit (the electric part) mounting onto the original insert on the tank and made it work.
