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Alternative Steering Wheels?

Discussion in 'Gen 3 Prius Technical Discussion' started by Patrick Hook, Jul 23, 2024 at 10:21 AM.

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    Patrick Hook New Member

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    Further to my recent threads about using the EPS from a Prius in my project car, I'm now trying to work out what other steering wheels will fit the column.

    Several companies advertise Prius steering wheel hubs, but these are for cars fitted with airbags - which mine isn't, so I need an alternative that has the correct spline but no airbag.

    The actual wheel I intend to use is a Momo with 6 bolts on a 70mm PCD, and this fitment seems to be common on a lot of the hubs used on Toyotas too. But I don't know which model to ask for!
     
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    I don't think any of that stuff matters If you look at Grant just to look at how it's done how they do it they have a little spline adapter that screws to the back of the steering wheel that has your horn contact on it which you wouldn't be using you would use the hub adapter and that would adapt about 30 or 40 different steering wheels to fit your business The Toyota's very popular I don't remember how many splines I'll try and count them tonight for you but my Corolla steering wheel will fit the Prius which will even fit on a truck up to a certain point The airbag business doesn't matter You could use an airbag steering wheel and the airbag wouldn't be hooked up to anything and if you could make the sidewing buttons work anything you could also use the steering or the turn signal assembly and the clock spring but then you're getting things very complicated for probably not a very complicated car but I have a couple of the grant steering wheel hub adapter sitting in my toolbox It's a very cheap aluminum design that matches the Toyota pretty standard steering wheel hub that I know from 74 to late up in the '90s and mid-2000s is pretty much the same for some reason 19 splines or something like that comes to mind I know it's a 19 mm nut. But you won't have any problem with this. So if you use the Toyota steering box assembly that's above your knees it'll have the shaft already sticking out of it and you'll be able to pick from a plethora of wheels whether you want to stock Toyota wheel and aftermarket Grant I'm working on fitting an Emerson fittipaldi E3 wheel personally