Steering Wheel Upgrade How-To

[rlith]

Well, a lot of us who have 95-98 trucks just don't like our steering wheels. Personally I prefer the 99-current wheels. Unfortunatly very little if anything across any of the s10/blazer boards have covered anything outside of putting on an aftermarket grant steering wheel. Some of these can be nice but unfortunatly it's illegal to remove an airbag...(yeah I know some of you don't care). Anyway

As I said, not much has been covered in regards to putting a 99+ steering wheel on a 95-98 airbag equipped truck.. Well, I went and did it!!! Yes folks it works fine! I even stopped by Baierl Chevrolet and had my tech meter and scan the system to make sure the airbag is working correctly!!! Everything is A.O.K!


So here we have the 98+ Steering Wheel and airbag system...

http://www.pghconsulting.net/teal/swheel1.jpg

Here is the 95-97 Steering Wheel and Airbag..

http://www.pghconsulting.net/teal/swheel2.jpg

And here is the 98+ Steering Wheel and Airbag in my 95 Blazer

http://www.pghconsulting.net/teal/swheel3.jpg

On a side note. This particular steering wheel has the radio controls built into it. After some initial testing I have figured out how to make it work with my existing head unit. (Pioneer) and will be wiring it this weekend. Granted, I will have limited functionality compared to the regular remote, but what the hell, if I can adjust volume and mute,, power, and what not, I'll be happy. I will be using my spare remote and extending the IR led into a base holder in the cowling behind the wheel. There is boat loads of room inside those steering wheels.. So for those wanting to upgrade, take heart, it's easily done!

[JONGO8]

Man, I would like to do that but I'm scared of that air bag. Did you have to use the airbag from the 98+ for the 95 Or did you use the 1995 in the 98+ wheel?

[JONGO8]

Man, I would like to do this but I'm scared of the airbag. Did you use the airbag from the 95 in the 98 wheel or did you buy a 98 wheel and bag? I hear that the airbags are like $500 bucks?

[rlith]

Thats a 98+ airbag

[boxcarracer963]

its actually 99-up with that steering wheel, 98 has the older steering wheel

[nukem1st]

Ok that's great that it can be done, can you tell how you done it, any modifications? anything special you have to do??? I'm glad to know that you did it, now what's the procedure?

[tucks20s]

did this to my 98. Looks A LOT better

[americasfuture2k]

im doing this wheel on my 98 blazer as well. just waiting on it to arrive. i looked at the schematics, and my wheel is a 2 pin connector. and the newer one is a 4 pin. the schematics for both show they are the same wire. but the newer wheel has 2 grounds and 2 signal/voltage wires. those look as if they can be linked (2 pos to 1 pos, 2 grnd to 1 ground) together to fit that 2 pin connector. is that what needs to be done?