Steadfast column protector

[daveismissing]

Gordy, do you have a picture of yours installed?
Their website is lame.

[Steve Wood]

If he doesn't, I will try to remember to take a pic of one of my cars

[gordyzx9r]

I don't (which is odd), and I won't be able to for a couple of weeks until I get the car back.

[SuperSix]

What's the one that sticks on? Glues on?

[gordyzx9r]

What's the one that sticks on? Glues on?

Glue?

The one I have uses rivets.  I think you can also buy one with a kryponite style lock (the orange ones that Kirban and a few other vendors used to sell).

The Steadfast column guard comes in black and I tried to have mine painted to match but it's a bit lighter grey than the column.

[Charlief1]

It's held on by a "captured" roll pin set up. Make sure you go through and check all the parts in the column before installing it or it's a total bitch to get off.

[SuperSix]

It's held on by a "captured" roll pin set up. Make sure you go through and check all the parts in the column before installing it or it's a total bitch to get off.

Got it.

If/when I do get one, I would rebuild the column, put in a new turn signal switch, stalk, lock cylinder/etc

[Steve Wood]

I installed this one in about 1995.  Probably have not cleaned it since according to these pics.  I did not paint it as I thought maybe it would discourage someone from trying to pop the column if they saw it.   As said above, it is a clam shell held together top and bottom with blind roll pins.  Takes a cut off wheel to get it off.  Covers the key cylinder as well.

[SuperSix]

I would like it more if it had a flat piano hinge or something on the top. I will probably still get one - I've grown weary of replacing steering columns.

[daveismissing]

Indeed, it would blend nicely when painted if not for that top bit.
Maybe the steel is springy enough to wrap without a hinge?

Thank you for the pictures Steve.

[Charlief1]

From what I remember about them they're pinned top and bottom. No hinges on it.

[SuperSix]

Indeed, it would blend nicely when painted if not for that top bit.
Maybe the steel is springy enough to wrap without a hinge?

Thank you for the pictures Steve.

I doubt it would be flexible enough to slide over without doing any damage to the stock column

[Steve Wood]

It is not flexible at all.  The joints are not particularly noticeable unless viewed from the camera angles.  Ot better than those big bulky locks that people used to buy

[gordyzx9r]

I thought it would bug me, but it doesn't...I wound up putting grey velcro strips in lieu of the black stickers that you see on Steve's car (because I couldn't find matching grey stickers and I didn't want people to be able to see the pins and think they could just knock them out).  I've seen a a few pics where people used that area to mount a tachometer.