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Woogeroo · 05-12-2008, 08:06 AM

A fellow poster on another old chevy truck site, Vaughan had this to write:

70-72 vans had a tilt column as an option, they could be used without modification to swap out the stock steering column - the wiring harness would plug right in and it would bolt right up to the mounts.

You can swap in a later (after 73) column, but you will have to splice in the wiring, especially if you use the column mount key switch for the ignition. The outer shaft of the steering column is quite a bit larger than the stock one, so you will have to do some mods to get it to work. See Persh's page on swapping the steering column. I did this with a tilt/telescoping column from an 83 cadillac, but used a 74 pickup pedal assembly to replace the stock pickup pedal assembly - the later steering column will bolt into place with the later pedal assembly, but a few mods are necessary. I swapped the pedals as part of a disk brake swap I was doing at the same time.

The new after market is the easiest to use, no fiddling with the wiring.

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Persh's page, mentioned in the post:

http://www.persh.org/pickup/pickup-beginning.htm

The '83 suburban steering column swap section:

http://www.persh.org/pickup/steering.htm

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-W

05-12-2008, 08:06 AM	#9
Woogeroo Registered User Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: tool box Posts: 3,115	Re: tilt steering for our trucks, aftermarket or later model swap ins? A fellow poster on another old chevy truck site, Vaughan had this to write: 70-72 vans had a tilt column as an option, they could be used without modification to swap out the stock steering column - the wiring harness would plug right in and it would bolt right up to the mounts. You can swap in a later (after 73) column, but you will have to splice in the wiring, especially if you use the column mount key switch for the ignition. The outer shaft of the steering column is quite a bit larger than the stock one, so you will have to do some mods to get it to work. See Persh's page on swapping the steering column. I did this with a tilt/telescoping column from an 83 cadillac, but used a 74 pickup pedal assembly to replace the stock pickup pedal assembly - the later steering column will bolt into place with the later pedal assembly, but a few mods are necessary. I swapped the pedals as part of a disk brake swap I was doing at the same time. The new after market is the easiest to use, no fiddling with the wiring. ---- Persh's page, mentioned in the post: http://www.persh.org/pickup/pickup-beginning.htm The '83 suburban steering column swap section: http://www.persh.org/pickup/steering.htm ---------------------------------------------- -W