Tilt column by sub model?????

[bikeman59]

Greetings. In doing some research to upgrade my truck to a tilt column, I came across a thread on another board that warned about making sure the tilt was designed for the specific sub model that was going to receive the upgrade. The guy mentioned that he had a Sierra and the tilt column from a Silverado did not work. In all other research I've done, I have not found any other mention of this type of problem.

Has anyone run into this issue? I've got an '80 Scottsdale. The only thing on the column is the turn indicator, the hazard button and the shift lever (auto). I want to add the tilt, but don't want wipers or cruise or anything else - just keep it simple.

Has anyone run into this problem or will any style of tilt from 73-87 fit? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[clinebarger]

Year model difference, 73-83 columns will swap, 84-91 columns have the wiper & dimmer switch added.

[86c20]

aside from year they should swap. i have a tilt on my k30 that is a custom d and the colum has cruse on it and it has delay wipers. the guy was nice enough to send it with the delay box for them. all went in ez and works well. i am planing on adding cruse so i left that arm in. but you could just get a reg arm

[bikeman59]

Hey guys - thanks for the info. I figured since I'd only seen one mention of the sub model stuff that there may not be a lot of truth to that, but I wanted to check. What you've stated pretty much matches everything else I've seen. Just looking for some validation. Thanks again, great forum.

[ray_mcavoy]

Originally Posted by clinebarger

Year model difference, 73-83 columns will swap, 84-91 columns have the wiper & dimmer switch added.

^ I agree ... the differences are model year specific. There was one other change made to the columns ... sometime around 1979 they changed from a splined shaft to a double-D shaft at the lower end. But that's easy enough to work around ... just get the intermediate shaft that runs down to the steering box out of the same donor truck as the column.

I noticed in your first post that you said you didn't want to add cruise control. But if you do end up finding a column that came from a truck with cruise, I think removing that is as simple as swapping out the turn signal stalk for the regular version.

[bikeman59]

Good point. I'll see if the turn signal lever can be swapped. Thanks for the info.

[motornut]

i think some early ones have a curved plug in?
most switch if the upper and lower shafts are changed together