{"id":279,"date":"2019-05-13T12:12:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T12:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/?p=279"},"modified":"2019-05-13T12:12:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T12:12:22","slug":"steering-column-change-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/2019\/05\/13\/steering-column-change-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Steering column change #3"},"content":{"rendered":"

So the test was successful, time to make it permanent.<\/p>\n

A little bit of welding later<\/p>\n

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Testing for fit in the car again.<\/p>\n

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Next up, weld it in place.<\/p>\n

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I ended up cutting back the front here as while it “fitted” it was rather too close to the clocks<\/p>\n

Finally, here you can see the difference in column location. The chassis tube running up\/down in this image is the original centre line.<\/p>\n

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With the column in place behind the dash.<\/p>\n

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And again.<\/p>\n

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Finally with the wheel in place.<\/p>\n

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Note that the steering lock is fully usable still which helps with IVA but unfortunately the stalks don’t fit.<\/p>\n

My intention is to use the original wheel with a padded centre replacing the airbag.<\/p>\n

I may at a later date replace the wheel with a more appropriate one but this appears to be tricky as while the spline is not unique to the Wagon R\/Agila A (it’s shared with the BMW E46) the adaptor for the E46 doesn’t fit particularly well due to the differences in the column hardware.<\/p>\n

I’ll worry about that once its passed the IVA!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So the test was successful, time to make it permanent. A little bit of welding later Testing for fit in the car again. Next up, weld it in place. I ended up cutting back the front here as while it “fitted” it was rather too close to the clocks Finally, here you can see the … Continue reading Steering column change #3<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10,3,9,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}