Aftermarket Steeringwheel

[JPMX6GT]

Now, for the installation. It actually was very VERY easy. The removal is straight forward. All you have to do is remove the bolts holding the air bag in place. Then, simply disconnect the horn wires, the cruise control wires and the air bag wires and detatch the air bag unit. After that, it's just a matter of removing screw after screw until the entire steering wheel assembly is removed.

Now, the only thing that was a little tricky was the giro mechanism, (Forget the name) that connects all of the wires from the steering wheel to the dashboard. At first I thought I had the wrong hub or maybe I had to break the wire harness that sticks out OFF. But then, I realized that I could remove it and run the wires for the horn a different way. See the pics below.

[JPMX6GT]

Well, after that was removed, I was able to install the steering wheel and hub without any problems. I ran the wire for the horn inside he hub and gave it a lot of slack so that it won't get tied up when turning the wheel. Then, some fine tuning as far as making sure it was straight and nice and tight, and I was all set. Below you'll see the final results and let me tell you, it makes driving a whole lot more fun and different.

[mx6-uk]

So I thought I would do a small write up on this as I have just done it. This seemed like the right place.

Generally would be straight forward but for the cruise controls.

No it wouldn't. WHY??
As you can see the back of the MOMO hub supplied for the mx-6 has this brass ring which will NOT marry to the plate in the column. so even if you wanted to lose cruise control mods would be needed. (might be OK an later models without cruise)

Std hub supplied.



OK so lets look at the std setup on the column.
You can see the cruise and horn wires and the plug they come from.



A better shot of the multi plug and how far it protrudes.



So Options?? I wanted to keep cruise control and do as little modding to the column as possible so I modified the hub.



Hub Fitted showing multi plug.



I then dissconected the cruise switched from the origonal wheel


Pic shows the controls in place and plugged in.


OK so our controls look fine on the std wheel but on the MOMO I wasnt sure. Yes I was I didnt like them so I ended up with a temp fix here. (I wasnt going to drill holes in the new wheel as I am going to change the switches to one either side of the horn push) So I used some double sided body tape to fix the switches to the wheel untill I can sort out new switches.


And the final result (Obvoiusly without the new switches)



Hope this helps if anyone else is contemplating this.

Dave