Help mounting Banjo wheel and hub

My worst fear is that some mouth breather has cut off the column housing to help mate it to the Dino wheel and adapter that was on it . However, looking at other 1970 style columns, i see that the turn indicator mechanism's are quite close to the rim of the column "bell". There is a good video on Youtube on replacing the upper bearing on a 1970 Ghia, and it looks pretty damn close to what I have.. Now... I bought the ONLY adapter that fit my column's criteria in spline count, etc. So I feel pretty confident that I bought the right hub. The hub slid on the splines easily, and easily bottomed out , therfore not allowing the hub to go closer to the dash. Any ideas as to what I am dealing with here? I know many guys have put Banjo's and CIP1/Flat four adapters on bugs and Speedsters.

There should be a SET SCREW for the turn signal switch that you can loosen and then slide the switch assembly back/closer to the steering wheel hub. Your pics show room on the steering shaft housing to do this, the limit may be the wires.
Doug

A buddy of mine said there are Allen bolts or something that allows the whole housing to be adjusted... If that's the case, and I can slide the whole column, that would be sweet. I'll look tomorrow.

If you have a blinker housing from a 1970 with the blinker arm in place and wiper function on the dash, there's an allen head bolt that secures the housing to the column and a smidge of fore and aft adjustment. If it's from a 1970, you also have a steering wheel lock as part of the key mechanism which must fit into a slot in the housing and a slotted collar on the shaft, this is going to limit that fore and aft adjustment however.

See if you can get things where they ought to be by loosening the bolt and moving the housing. If you still have a problem, email me or post here and I'll figure it out for you. I put a VW steering column and housing in my Fiat 600 and my MGA both, and have gotten pretty familiar with 'em . . . unfortunately.

Oh, you can dress those housings and blinker arms up quite a bit with a drill, wire wheel, and a little paint. Check pics/links below, it's a stock 1970 Ghia/Super Beetle blinker assembly:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/TeamEvil/housing7.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/TeamEvil/housing6.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/TeamEvil/housing5.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/TeamEvil/housing1.jpg

Luck,

TC

Yeah, it's strange, Im not quite sure whats going on there. There is 1" of splines, and if I take 3/8" off that part that you can see that it is bottomed out, that'll let that hub slide on further. Ive driven race cars with less spline area grabbing the shaft than this. So that part doesnt worry me at all. I'll probably have it machined if I cant slide that column up. The Samba suggested that there's two allen bolts that holds the column in place and they think I can slide the column that gap, I'm not sure thats 100% though... I'll know in a day or two...

Two allens hold the column to the underside of the dash, just one on the clamp inside the housing that allows it so slide fore and aft.

Those two mounting holes are slotted to allow you to move the outer column fore/aft to set that gap too. Depends if the bolts attach to the frame far enough aft to allow for that much movement.

So there's two under the dash, where is the 3rd?

Perhaps I wasn't clear. You should be able to slide the turn signal housing assembly fore and aft after loosening its' set screw. No need to move the entire column housing.

the allen head bolt for the switch housing is on the underside of the housing in a recessed hole opposite the ignition switch. Bottom left corner.

KW,, in your first post, you used "mouth breathers" in a derogitory manner. Some people with deviated septum's have to breath through their mouths and that's a fact !!!!

And MAN does their breath ever stink because of it !!!

My mother had a deviated septum (from birth) and for some reason the doctor removed her uvula (thinking that it would help) when they pulled her tonsils as a young child . . . you could weld cast iron with her breath !!

Seriously.

Ok, I'm sorry... A stump jumping inbred hillbilly from Bradley county Tn... I did not mean that in a medical way, rather an uncle daddy way..

Not that there's anything wrong with that...

I'm going to see if that bad boy will slide closer to the hub today, thanks guys for the advice...

A stump jumping inbred hillbilly from Bradley county Tn
I believe there's a reality show on TV with that name

Yelp KW it will slide up and thats whats wrong.. Or the shaft may need to slide down at the doenut coupler on the steering box.. It's a eather or senerio..

Two Allen bolts, slid right up. Lotta VW learning this year... Cool!

Glad you got it fixed up right, Keith. I'm considering putting a Banjo type wheel on my car which has some kind of Momo on it right now. I believe my chassis is a pre 1968 1/2. Can you do one more post on this subject and offer up a concise tutorial on how to get this task done ? Thanks.

I took pictures along the way, and I'd really like to do a tech thread on not just the banjo, but getting your horn to work off the button, instead of a radio shack switch under the dash, so stand by!