Steering wheel changes
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i have not, but my best friend has an 87 ranger with the cruise controls on the turn signal lever. it looks like a factory thing. you may be able to pick one of these up at a parts house (though i dont know how avalable the part is now.. being 20 years old..) and wire it in to your colum and keep your cruise and cool new wheel 
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franken, that could be an aftermarket or dealer-installed setup. I can't remember who the one aftermarket steering wheel manufacturer is, but they make an install kit for Fords with the cruise control on the steering wheel. I can't remember if I saw it on truckperformance.com, jcwhitney.com, one of the auto parts stores' online shopping sites, jegs.com, summitracing.com, or what.
Wait.. found it on truckperformance.com and the manufacturer is Grant. $110 for the kit
Wait.. found it on truckperformance.com and the manufacturer is Grant. $110 for the kit
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Excellent!
The Grant kit I saw on truckperformance is exactly what I was after, sold! It's kinda weird to me that the paint on this truck is trashed, as is the steering wheel, but the dash, seats and door panels are like new.
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Nothing surprising about the paint here. Mine was originally silver and dark blue, but the dark blue was painted over with charcoal grey and the hood was never repainted properly and now is primer grey. I'm eventually going to completely repaint the truck. As far as the on-column controls, the only vehicles I remember those being on were GMs and Dodge/Chrysler/Plymouths, if I'm not mistaken. Fords have generally always been on the steering wheel that I can recall. I may eventually fork over the $$$ and get a Grant steering wheel and said mounting/install kit, but not anytime soon. I already have ~$730 invested in non-routine maintenance / mods to mine and it'll probably be closer to $1000 by the time it's sitting in pre-axle swap form.
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Mine too
Yeah, I've spent over 1K now to get this truck safe to drive, emissions passed and licensed. Now it's time to get it prettied up, lifted up and on the rocks.
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if you guys want, the next time in over at my friends house i can get a picture of the controls on his truck, though i doubt i can get you any part numbers being he probally would not like me taking the colum apart lol.
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that works... of course, I'm curious if it was a complete column swap out of another vehicle as well.... and I didn't realize you're a "neighbor" too, franken! there's like 6 BIIs that are extremely local to me that I know of, plus a few within one state either direction.... almost the makings of a BII / Ranger wagon train out to some trails! heh.
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