Steering column

FSJfan · Post by **FSJfan** » Tue Mar 14, 2017 7:00 pm

I'm new to an FSJ and was wondering what I could do to give me a little more room when driving. I am 6'2 and my thighs are tight to the steering wheel. It has some different seats out of a late model truck not sure what it's out of, but I think I would need a tilt column. Do they make tilt column for a 4 speed?

REDONE · Post by **REDONE** » Tue Mar 14, 2017 8:37 pm

What's your FSJ, FSJfan? Quite possible a GM or XJ column will swap in, but we need to know what you're driving first!

FSJfan · Post by **FSJfan** » Wed Mar 15, 2017 1:44 pm

1977 Jeep J10

DustinLangston · Post by **DustinLangston** » Wed Mar 15, 2017 3:10 pm

Easiest to just install a tilt column.

DustinLangston · Post by **DustinLangston** » Wed Mar 15, 2017 3:14 pm

The column comes out of your J10 in like 20 minutes. Remove trim ring, remove two bolts under dash, unplug electrical connectors, unbolt trim at firewall, decouple from steering shaft connector in engine bay walla! Steering column out.

FSJfan · Post by **FSJfan** » Wed Mar 15, 2017 4:20 pm

So in that case would you need to get a tilt column out of a Full Size Jeep?

DustinLangston · Post by **DustinLangston** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 1:05 pm

I'd assume that a jeep vs a Chevy truck would have different length dimensions, so I know it would be a lot easier if you stuck with a jeep column. Where are you located? I'm going to a salvage yard tomorrow that has like 20 of them.

FSJfan · Post by **FSJfan** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 1:46 pm

I'm located in West Central Illinois

HeavyMetalThunder_81 · Thu Mar 23, 2017 8:41 am

FSJfan wrote:I'm located in West Central Illinois

Where from? I grew up in northern Illinois but spent a lot of my childhood in Knox County.

Tilt columns for the manual FSJs are a little more difficult to find. Usually found in the early '80s Laredos. I've been searching for a very long time without much luck, though.

tgreese · Post by **tgreese** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 10:49 am

If you were ok with the shifter nub and indicator hole on the column, is there any reason you could not use a column from an automatic?

Charles Kline · Post by **Charles Kline** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 12:08 pm

Maybe the early XJ coulmn? its slightly shorter-ness might be beneficial.

FSJfan · Post by **FSJfan** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 9:11 pm

HeavyMetalThunder_81 wrote:
FSJfan wrote:I'm located in West Central Illinois
Where from? I grew up in northern Illinois but spent a lot of my childhood in Knox County.

Tilt columns for the manual FSJs are a little more difficult to find. Usually found in the early '80s Laredos. I've been searching for a very long time without much luck, though.

I'm from over by Springfield. In a small little town of 1800

jpswapmohn · Post by **jpswapmohn** » Sat Mar 25, 2017 6:06 am

I used the XJ column. It is a little shorter, which pulls the wheel a little closer to the dash. It is also tilt. All XJ's are floor-shift, so that helps. One thing to note is that the xj column for automatics has a cable that runs to the shifter to insure it is in park before the key turns to start. It is easy enough it remove the cable.

I am not sure of difference to the 77, but it was plug and play for signal/wiper/high beam on the 88. Maybe you can move your high beam from the floor to the column at the same time..

SJTD · Post by **SJTD** » Sat Mar 25, 2017 9:18 am

What!?

Move the high beam switch?

That's one of the things I like best about my CJ-7.

So after I've spent several days modifying my '84 column to remove the auto shifter guts and remount the shroud I find out an XJ column will work.

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