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Capri steering wheel into cortina?
Any one know if a mk3 capri 3 spoke wheel will fit a mk5 cortina as I have a plan and need a steering wheel boss that is steel. I know the capri one is , but can't find a steel cortina one.
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No. Cortina 3/4/5 has a larger spline than escort/capri/mk1 an 2 tinas. Same size as a mk1/2 granada.
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in |
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orangecords
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you have to alter the centre of the wheels and swap the splined middle from the tina into the capri-pretty sure you have to alter the length of the back of the boss too. my mate did it and all it took was an hour and some clever welding  |
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I had a steel mountney boss for the mk2 cortina but cut that up as the spline is the same as Jo's viva, I has forgotten that, will see if theres one locally I can look at.
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bortaf
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Mk2 escort is the same as Mk3/4/5 cortina and they use similar steering wheels ?
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is it? Every mk2 escort I ever had got the same capri wheel slung on it  |
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in |
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Yeah, and every Mountney boss I've ever seen is ally. (truth...) |
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why cant you swap the whole column - if thats what you need?
they are both fairly simple poles, welded on new brackets
bingo
I have to agree with TB though - I have never seen a steel boss to fit capri / mk1 escort etc
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Last Edit: Jun 2, 2009 0:24:14 GMT by Autofive
Someone just shot the elephant in the room. |
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must be my age, i have definatly had a steel boss on wheels i remember as being mountneys, i had to weld a lug on a broken one to cancel the indicators, i guess it could have been any make really though and just had the same bolt pattern on the top or a copy cat wheel, polished another one and could have sworn it was steel and not alloy, but again it may not have been a mountney.
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Mountney m range boss I had for the mk2 cortina was definately steel as I cut and welded it to take a grant wheel, and the mk3 capri wheel that was on my old mk1 consul was also steel . I have found that all the classic range mountney bosses are ally though.
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Some of the very latest Moutney classic range of bosses are steel (steel frame with a plastic cover).
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Some of the very latest Moutney classic range of bosses are steel (steel frame with a plastic cover). I think you'll find upon close examination they are steel frame bolted to an ally boss. The boss itself (the broached part, which is the business end of things) is ally. Broaching a steel blank instead of ally is 10x harder on the tooling and don't see why Mountney would want to entail the extra cost? Perhaps what has been discussed upthread ^^^ is the welding of the steel frame of a Capri wheel to the steel frame of a Mountney ally boss. That would be entirely possible! Norm |
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