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  1. squeal1

    squeal1 Out To Have Fun

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    I got my X-mas Grant Steering wheel on today:smash: 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:banghead: 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 :p

    Later Guys
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  2. Mavaholic

    Mavaholic Growing older but not up!

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    Yup, my dad used to say, "if all else fails, read the directions."
     
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  3. Hawkco

    Hawkco Genuine Car Nut

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    Read the instructions?! Why...that's sacrilege. :tsk:
    We don't need no stinkin' instructions.:hmmm::banghead:
    We're car guys.:coco::49:




    Uh...good advice. (y)
     
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  4. Dan Starnes

    Dan Starnes Original owner

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    Sparks flying would be cooler,, shoulda just left it and had plenty of spare fuses:slap:
     
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    squeal1 Out To Have Fun

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    Hey Dan if my last attemp wouldn't have worked I was thinking about it:mad: 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 :eek:
     
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    Read the instructions? What fun is that??...
     
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    :ttiwwp: Please post some.
     
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    squeal1 Out To Have Fun

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    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 :D
     
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    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...(y)
     
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  10. DAB

    DAB MAVERICK/COMET ENTHUSIAST

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    I guess in this case, you really can't take assembly for GRANTed without reading the instructions! :biglaugh:

    [Couldn't resist]!

    Nice wheel, Neal! :thumbs2:
     
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    71gold Frank Cooper Supporting Member

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    mav.73,
    i see the pic. he posted but i don't see the sparks :huh:. maybe he needs to take it at night without a flash :biglaugh: ..frank...
     
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    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.
     
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    doug- you sure have a sense of humor... i'll GRANT you that!
     
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    squeal1 Out To Have Fun

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    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.
     
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    squeal1 Out To Have Fun

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    here is a pic of the gauges
     
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