Steering column swap?

I just swapped in an 89 tilt column (may be an 88) in my 90 non tilt airbag column and the wiring plug types were the same. Im not sure if they actually have any diff wiring on the 93 though cause ford did some major wiring changes but mostly the color scheme...

How much trouble to swap the dash and column from a 88 to an 85?

it's a lot to swap the dash, wiring is completely different, besides, why put a ford tempo dash style in your 85? those 85 dashes look mean as hell...btw check out my new 79-86 mustang site, link in sig

If I had a85 I woudl keep the stock dash you can run way bigger gauge sin an 85 then in a 87 and newer..check out florida50.com they have sick panels for pre 87 fox body dashes...

smr said:

I just swapped in an 89 tilt column (may be an 88) in my 90 non tilt airbag column and the wiring plug types were the same.

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What's all involved in this swap ???

Katmandu said:

What's all involved in this swap ???

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I actually swapped the 89 dash and column but you can do the tilt swap without the dash. the opening for the 90+ dash for the c9olumn is larger due to the airbag but you can make the column plastics fit from an 87-89. everything else was the same..I dont know if you can run airbag setup on tilt column though because the airbag electronics require big ring in back for connection and the tilt column doesn thave this setup on it. but I would take the tilt non airbag over the non tilt airbag column any day imho...

i have spent alot of time trying to do this and you cant, unless you dont want the air bag steering wheel

Someone replied with this link on another thread....

http://www.corral.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=112&Itemid=26