Flaming River Column Question

[HUSSEY]

Has anyone purchased a Flaming River Stainles Steel column in their "paintable mill finish". Can you give me a description of what the finish looks like, brushed look? I thought this would be a good way to go as the Chrome or polished columns are about 175 more. I could then polished it myself when I got around to it.

[_Ogre]

if you really want to save some cash, for the price of shipping their column you can get a junkyard column.
there are many ways to keep the cost down on a truck build

[bmacdona]

Here's mine. It wouldn't take much to prep it for paint, I had the same idea, save a bit of money up front, paint it later. Don't know that I'll ever to it, I'd rather drive it.

[HUSSEY]

I have an S10 colunn that I could use that has the key and column shift but I've seen them in other trucks and they just look out of place. The lower halve the the column just looks too cluttered and not very attractive. I like the lower cover you did on your which hides all of that. I've found 30in. Flaming River SS columns unfinised for $329 shipped, I didn't think that was too bad of a price though I would still need to add a steering wheel. I'd also like to a tall floor shifter and keep the ignition switch on the dash so that's a couple another reason I'm not really interested in using the S10 column I have.

[HUSSEY]

Originally Posted by bmacdona

Here's mine. It wouldn't take much to prep it for paint, I had the same idea, save a bit of money up front, paint it later. Don't know that I'll ever to it, I'd rather drive it.

Perfect, that was exactly what I was looking for. So, I'm wondering if this is what they start with at the factory on polished columns, do you think you could polish your out?

Also, what length column is yours? Can you provide any pics or description of the lower mount you used?

Thanks again!

[bmacdona]

You could probably polish it, but it'd take a while...more than I'd want to do. This was a 33" column. I used the Flaming River lower ball mount.