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Can Anyone Recommend! Quick Release Steering Wheel Boss!

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crusader:

--- Quote from: Litch on January 06, 2008, 19:56:48 ---Bought mine from Raid a couple of years ago, an excelent piece of kit and is a very visable deterrent. Cost now is £69.99. See their Ebay shop at http://stores.ebay.co.uk/RaidPerformance. I found them a good firm to deal with and they were only to happy to help if you ring or email them for advice, certainly a lot better than one or two aftermarket suppliers I could mention who sell the same item.

I use a Mountney '6-hole' pattern boss and a Raid 12-inch 3-spoke alloy, leather trimmed wheel. This is a very nice set-up and I really like it however be advised that the Snap-Off adapter puts the wheel closer to the driver and this may not be to everyones liking.
I know Tiltboy on this forum has also been using a Snap-Off adapter for some time as it was he who first put me onto them.

Tip:- Check how many splines you have before ordering, no point guessing how many your vehicle SHOULD have, best to see how many it actually DOES have.

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I called the Lady at RAID last week and Totally confused her when i asked her about Splines on the Snap-off Boss?
I was told that Earlier 90's (Ie Mine 89) should  have 36 splines and later models have 48 splines

Litch:
"Called the Lady at RAID last week and Totally confused her when i asked her about Splines on the Snap-off Boss?
I was told that Earlier 90's (Ie Mine 89) should  have 36 splines and later models have 48 splines."

Like I said in my earlier post, don't go on how many splines you SHOULD have but take the wheel off and count them as that way you KNOW you are correct. Removing the wheel takes about 2-minutes and if you have to make up a simple puller this can be done in 10-minutes.

First you fit a boss to the column, I used a Mountney '6-hole' one but there are other manufacturers who make the same part (the '6-hole' fitting is an aftermarket industry standard). Don't use a Mountney 'classic' boss as this only takes the Mountney 'classic' steering wheels (the cheaper ones you see advertised in many dealers).
Onto the boss you mount the 'Snap-Off' adapter. This comes in two parts and is the part that splits into two, the main one fits to the '6-hole' boss and the other fits to the aftermarket wheel. You can now see that by fitting all these parts together you are moving the wheel towards you and only you can tell if this will be ok, I get on well with it but I know some others do not.


I must admit that at the beginning I was quite confused as I couldn't understand the need for a separate boss & 'Snap-Off' adapter, the difference in the '6-hole' pattern and other aftermarket bosses etc but I found both the Mountey helpdesk & Raid very helpful. You can't order the boss from the Mountney helpdesk but they will ensure you have the correct part number (just confirm the number of splines first) to enable you to order it from any dealer.
I seem to recall that at the time Raid didn't sell the boss so I ordered this from Demon Tweaks and got the rest of the bits from Raid. DT were very little help and kept trying to sell me the wrong boss (which is why I keep saying you must count the splines yourself) but Mountney & me were correct and DT were wrong.

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