Stock steering wheel install without crush can?

[Chryco Psycho]

 

[wanderlustin]

Tuff wheel adapter arrived and steering wheel is now on the car. Thanks guys!

@timdp How do you like it?  Any pics to share? 

[Claudia]

I have contemplated this very thing . . . needing additional room between the steering wheel and myself. 

Has anyone ever done a "chop" on a stock crush can???   

[Burdar]

Just throwing this out there...

On an A-body, the steering column outer jacket isn't a solid piece.  It is a metal "mesh".   This is what collapses in an accident.  On an E-body, the outer column jacket is solid and it's the crush can that collapses.  I'm wondering how safe an A-body Tuff wheel adapter is when installed on an E-body.

[YellowThumper]

I have contemplated this very thing . . . needing additional room between the steering wheel and myself. 

Has anyone ever done a "chop" on a stock crush can???   

Interesting that you ask...
I am planning on attending the Fall Fling in VanNuys next month. Hoping to find one I can slice and shorten.
I have the capability of cutting, welding (properly) and finish machining so change becomes unnoticeable.

[wanderlustin]

Just throwing this out there...

On an A-body, the steering column outer jacket isn't a solid piece.  It is a metal "mesh".   This is what collapses in an accident.  On an E-body, the outer column jacket is solid and it's the crush can that collapses.  I'm wondering how safe an A-body Tuff wheel adapter is when installed on an E-body.

Excellent point.  The A and B-body cans do not collapse.

[dave73]

The background on that first picture is like nothing I've ever seen on here. This is an interesting thread ha

[timdp]

Tuff wheel adapter arrived and steering wheel is now on the car. Thanks guys!

@timdp How do you like it?  Any pics to share? 

The wheel is a little closer to me than it was and the grip on the stock wheel is is is pretty horrible. I'm at the event shown in the pics (Wasteland Weekend; Mad Max in the desert for 6 days) way out in the California desert and the internet is very marginal, so pics may have to wait until I get home

[Katfish]

I can't really believe what we call the "crush can" on E-bodies is meant to collapse.
The lower column pushes up for this purpose.
Your chest hits that wheel with enough force to collapse that and your toast.

[Burdar]

The ribs on the can are there for a purpose...   The factory literature even says this.

https://www.hamtramck-historical.com/images/dealerships/DealershipDataBook/1970/70_Challenger0027.jpg

https://www.hamtramck-historical.com/images/dealerships/DealershipDataBook/1971/71_Challenger0023.jpg

[Katfish]

I don't doubt they claim that,
Hit that can with a hammer hard enough to collapse it, and I guarantee a blow 1/2 that hard to your chest is not something you walk away from.

[timdp]

Some pics of the installed wheel and Tuff can. Definitely the most uncomfortable steering wheel I have ever used. Half wrapped it with leather lace at the event and that helped a very little bit. Will be looking a covering options.

Electrical meter has just noted that the MISC fuse is hot with no keys in the car...

[wanderlustin]

I can't really believe what we call the "crush can" on E-bodies is meant to collapse.
The lower column pushes up for this purpose.
Your chest hits that wheel with enough force to collapse that and your toast.

@Cuda Cody and I stumbled across this "crushed can" this afternoon!

[CudaMoparRay]

Crash can better than a solid piece of metal or nothing but none-the-less I would like to see what the persons chest that hit it looks like 

Original Mopar engineer crash can tester with a 426 Hellephant on him

[timdp]

Any pics of the car that can came out of?