Wanting to put a 55 Buick steering wheel on 50 Chevy column....adapter?

Thinking of taking the weed whacker and tools back to the yard this weekend to recover the column if for no other reason than to have it. The car has some really good panels on it, and the guys there don't care about making bank on any of it...I might just loot the whole thing while I'm there. I was definitely thinking of grabbing the portholes on the sides....think they'd look good on my 50?

Anyway, back to the subject at hand, it is indeed off of a Buick, I plucked it from the car myself. The diameter on the spline was about 3/4"...it was a 1" jam nut holding it on.

I wish there were, but the center hub covers about half of the holes on the plate :/ I have already designed an adapter in CAD that would work just fine and built like a brick sh*thouse, but it would cost about $450 to CNC mill. It would be made of the same hardened aluminum as the Grant spline hub adapter. I design stuff all day long, this is no stretch for me....just dropping the duckets to do it

It is indeed mighty fine!!! I'm going to make a custom centerpiece for it one of these days.

 

could you smooth the spline and the hole in the whel and machine them so you could use a square key,kind of like a cam gear?

 

I like what Delaware is saying here. Can you weld a plate or something to the back of the wheel? If not, maybe the idea of a keyway might do it? I am trying to put this same wheel on a late model column(1989 tilt) and it won't work for me either.

 

the spline for the buick at 3/4" sounds like a standard GM size if i recall. the 50' chevy column is not a tilt and feeds through the bottom of column mast so that could be issue. if it were me i would ues the entire buick column and install lower flange bearing in bottom of "donated" column and connect it with u joint/ rag joint. your gonna get the same look as the era of columns are very close. this is what i'm getting ready to do to a 56' panel that i getting upgraded with modern p.s. box.

 

This thread popped up in a search and I wanted to do the same thing. A 55 Buick wheel on my 51 Chevy. The splines are different. 11/16-36 and 3/4-36. I cut the hub out of the Chevy wheel, turned it down, milled out the Buick hub with a .001 press fit and Dutchman pinned it. 3 months of planning and it’s on the car. It should be noted that the horn set ups are totally different and to the best I can figure not compatible. I’ll have to use a dash button.



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Be aware before you cut up a vintage wheel for that center piece you can take that part out of most any later Chevy wheel. By the 1980s, most any GM car. Same shaft and splines.