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Subject:Re: tilt steering column???
From:Andrew Grebneff
Date:Tue, 25 Sep 2001 18:08:41 +1200

>Has anyone else tried to fit a Golf/Jetta tilt steering column into a
>Vanagon? I'm gonna try it. The splines look the same but haven't started
>measuring yet. Any tips will be appreciated. Why? Because it's there. And
>it's made in GerMexicony.
>
>BenT

No, but I do plan to fit a Japanese one. Not so much for the tilt function,
but because I want one with an automatic position on the lightswitch.

Toyota columns have coarse ratchets, so I guess a Skyline friction-adust
unit will have to do.

Andrew Grebneff
165 Evans St, Dunedin, New Zealand
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
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