sm73charger
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I have a 73 Charger that doesnt have tilt steering and I am wanting to change it to tilt steering. Can someone tell me what years/model parts car would be compatible so I can get one out of it to make the switch? Thanks
question about changing to tilt steering
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cudamark
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Welcome to FABO! Your best bet will be to use a '76 Cordoba, Charger, Fury, Monaco type column. I haven't done that interchange but the '75 columns will interchange with your model but they didn't make a tilt in '75. Take some good pictures and measurements before you buy so you can compare them to yours. Good Luck!!
If you can't find an exact same make/model match, most column lock columns to the mid/late 70s should be of the same style as yours.
Things to watch out for are the size, shape, and number of electrical plugs that connect the column to the car's harness. Certain years of doner cars will have an adaptor harness about 6 to 8 inches long running from the column to the car's harness. This is because the tilt or tilt/scope columns were of Saginaw (Generic Motors) manufacture and mother Mopar did this rather than modify the underdash harness for the few cars (relatively speaking) with tilt. If the donor column doesn't have Mopar connectors, leave this adaptor harness behind on the doner car at your peril!
Also the plate bolted to the column that allows it to be bolted to the column drop usually varies with the model and may require changing or modifying.
Ditto the firewall plate. Because this plate seals up the hole and holds the lower end of the column in alignment, you get to either change out the plate or modify the hole in the firewall if you don't have the right one.
Finally we get to trunions, u-joints, rag joints, and/or an intermediate shaft. Adapting a column with a rag joint to a trunion may require replacing the lower shaft. If no shaft with trunion pins can be found, converting from a trunion to a rag joint may be the only option provided you can find a rag joint coupler with the correct steering box splines.
More easily found (more to begin with) tilts out of full size C bodies (New yorkers, etc.) used basically the same columns except that they used an intermediate shaft with a rag joint AND an u-joint.
You probably don't want to know how much "fun" it is to adapt a C body tilt/scope into an A body!
Things to watch out for are the size, shape, and number of electrical plugs that connect the column to the car's harness. Certain years of doner cars will have an adaptor harness about 6 to 8 inches long running from the column to the car's harness. This is because the tilt or tilt/scope columns were of Saginaw (Generic Motors) manufacture and mother Mopar did this rather than modify the underdash harness for the few cars (relatively speaking) with tilt. If the donor column doesn't have Mopar connectors, leave this adaptor harness behind on the doner car at your peril!
Also the plate bolted to the column that allows it to be bolted to the column drop usually varies with the model and may require changing or modifying.
Ditto the firewall plate. Because this plate seals up the hole and holds the lower end of the column in alignment, you get to either change out the plate or modify the hole in the firewall if you don't have the right one.
Finally we get to trunions, u-joints, rag joints, and/or an intermediate shaft. Adapting a column with a rag joint to a trunion may require replacing the lower shaft. If no shaft with trunion pins can be found, converting from a trunion to a rag joint may be the only option provided you can find a rag joint coupler with the correct steering box splines.
More easily found (more to begin with) tilts out of full size C bodies (New yorkers, etc.) used basically the same columns except that they used an intermediate shaft with a rag joint AND an u-joint.
You probably don't want to know how much "fun" it is to adapt a C body tilt/scope into an A body!
Might be a better question to ask on forbbodiesonly.com
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