Hi peeps. I have a 92 CB I am changing week by week and it has a stock airbag steering wheel but my beef is that the wheel will only lower as far as the lever on the bottom left of the column will allow. As you know the stock seats in a CB sit a little low anyway and the wheel doesn't drop low enough for my preference. Is there any way to safely make the column drop lower without having an effect on the steering itself? Thanks!
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I've just fitted an aftermarket steering wheel to my CB7. In order to keep the the cruise control function I had to make my own hub kit (with provision to mount the cruise control buttons) and since I was doing this took the opportunity to make it long enough to bring the wheel a couple of inches closer to the driver (it's wonderful, thanks for asking).
Problem is that because of the steering column angle this also raises the wheel somewhat, so I had a look to see if I could increase the degree to which the steering column can be lowered. My first thought was possibly extending the slots in which the column rises / lowers, but they can't be extended as not enough metal exists at the bottom of the slots to do so.
The most likely way to lower the column seems to be by shimming between the bodywork and the upper column bracket. I can see two nuts on studs at the upper column mount, and loosened them both, however the column bracket refused to lower so there must be a hidden fastener somewhere.
In the end I've just raised the seat a little, not a perfect solution but OK...Regards from Oz,
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damn that kinda sucks. I was speaking with someone about this today and he said that depending on the length of the bolts attached to the column bracket, that I may be able to "shim" them to lower them. Not sure about that either. Thanks for the replies!Comment
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