Steering column question

[pitaSHO]

I'd like to convert my 91 to a 93-95 steering wheel. I was going to test fit a 95 steering column to see if that will allow me to have the correct wheel, air bag, clock spring, turn signal stalk, and wiring. Is this simple enough to do?

Chris K.

 

[boat]

I have not done that. But, PM jelloslug, he has a different Ford steering wheel in his gen 1. He went as far as to put a digital dash in his gen 1.

 

[kevinspann]

The air bag connectors on the clock spring are different no matter what - your only choices are to splice at the wheel, or splice at the end of the column. Unless there is some freaky '93 clockspring that is is correct for the earlier cars, but plugs into the later harness. I have seen a few '93 SLOs with the older wheel in it before (With a console shift, weirdly enough)

Everything else should be the same as far as I know....the columns themselves should be the same as well.

 

[pitaSHO]

So just splicing one connection does it? I can do that... Thanks.

 

[kevinspann]

One, maybe two. I want to say one of them was still the same. It's not much, that's for sure. If you don't want to take the whole thing apart, you can just change the connector behind the airbag.

 

[rubydist]

iirc, it is just one connector on the air bag that is different.

be sure to disconnect power before you splice the connectors. I recommend the column connector be changed, that way you have no risk of detonating the airbag while re-terminating the wiring on the airbag.....

 

[crazy_canadian]

You'd need a high voltage spike to detonate an airbag. I rarely disconnect the battery before servicing an airbag system at work.
Just make sure you are not holding static electricity before. Touch the metal of the car. I've heard this could f*ck things up.

 

[LOUDSHO92]

It is easy, I even did how-to a while ago.

 

[220ksho]

You'd need a high voltage spike to detonate an airbag. I rarely disconnect the battery before servicing an airbag system at work.
Just make sure you are not holding static electricity before. Touch the metal of the car. I've heard this could f*ck things up.

FWIW, you only need ~12 volts to deploy an airbag. Most airbag connectors have integrated shunts which shorts out the terminals when they're disconnected making it safe for service/installation. The OP needs to be careful if splicing wires, since the terminals would not be shorted.