GM Comfort Grip Steering Wheel

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Has anyone thrown a GM comfort grip steering wheel in their Squarebody? Tried installing one in mine but it seems like it’ll need an adaptor.
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Has anyone thrown a GM comfort grip steering wheel in their Squarebody? Tried installing one in mine but it seems like it’ll need an adaptor.
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Dad had these on a few of our square body trucks and Burbs, and as far as I can remember he used the stock adapter hub on all. And the Burbs had factory tilt columns, a 79 and an 84(both early and later styles). And I don't recall a fitment issue and gap like this....
There may be different depths/heights of adapter hubs? The wheels we used were off 70s GM midsize and compact cars that had them available as options, pulled from the local wrecking yards when these cars were in them(20-30 years ago).
Don't have a way to check, but the Camaro and Corvette applications might use a different hub. I know the horn contacts are different heights depending on the button used. The metal one like you have, uses a different, shorter, contact than the ones we had, that have a vinyl ring around the emblem.
 

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It needs to use whatever hub it was designed to be used with.
 

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It needs to use whatever hub it was designed to be used with.
This is true...but I still wonder if there's not more than one "collar length" on these hubs?
I'm not where my parts are, so I can't check and see what I still have. I know I have some buttons left, but not sure if I have any hubs.
 

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You can get the adapter off of eBay. A little research will tell you what adapter you need.
 

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Yep, needs an adaptor. You can pretty much find those wherever the wheels are sold

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