Steering wheel alignment and seat alignment.

[MOON BUGGY]

Steering wheel alignment and seat alignment.

When installing the steering wheel is it supposed to be square with the dashboard or
at a slight angle.
And if it is at a slight angle do you install the seats at an angle so your shoulders are square with the
steering wheel and the centerline of the seat and steering wheel match when looking from the front or back of the car.

In my buggy if I mount my steering wheel square with the dashboard I have to move my seats in closer to the tunnel to keep a centerline center of the seat center of the steering wheel.
If I mount my steering wheel at at a slight angle from the dashboard the seats move outward away from the tunnel to keep a centerline.


The goal on my buggy is for the seat to look centered with the steering wheel when looking from front or back of the buggy
and my shoulders square with the steering wheel when sitting in the seat.

My seat sliders are mounted to the floor pan parallel with the tunnel.
I can mount my seat at a slight angle on the sliders to match the steering wheel.

What has been your experience when dealing with seat and steering wheel alignment?

[Dale M.]

In most cases you mount seat square to floor/chassis...

If you bring steering wheel through dash at predefined section of dash for steering column and does not quite line up with seat, if its not to crazy a misalignment you live with it.....

IF Its radical you do whatever you have to to make it match up.

Both of my buggies have column pretty much in middle of seat, BUT the wheel itself is at slight angle because of column/steering box/cutout in dash sort of defines placement of it all....

Dale
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[MOON BUGGY]

thanks Dale for the quick reply.
so the consensus is get it as good as you can
and if it's not perfect don't sweat it.

[lostinbaja]

If you ever get a chance, look at a Chevy Chevette, the steering column is nowhere near perpendicular with the dash.
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[Kreelak]

or the first ford fiesta the steering column came threw the dash at a slight angle and the bent the steeling wheel enough it was straight with the dash and looked straight when sitting behing the wheel as you turned it one side would get further away from you

[didget69]

[GS guy]

Not just Chevette seats. Years ago when I customized a '74 Bug I had a similar issue. I was fitting Subaru XT seats which had a striped pattern - making it easy to identify the center of the seat while looking at it. I fitted them to original seat frames cut from the old Bug seats - being careful to center the seats on the frame when bolted together. When I finally placed the seats into the car - it was painfully obvious the seat wasn't centered with the bottom spoke of my 3-spoke Formuling wheel! Like a couple inches off. Only alternative was to make some offset seat mounting brackets to help center the seat with the wheel. Afterwards I started noticing a lot of cars don't really have the seat that well centered with the steering wheel.
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[MOON BUGGY]

WOW..... did this thread take a strange turn.

Dale M.
since you're the only one that stayed on topic, that makes you
the grand prize winner
that's right Dale you have won a slightly used rusty Chevette
After reading this thread I have realized you will have to drive it
while sitting in the passenger seat

Congratulations