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NAS90



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[Wanted] 48 Spline Leather Trimmed Steering Wheel
Looking for a decent condition 48 Spline steering wheel with a budget of £50-£80.

If anyone has one kicking around that they don't need i'd be glad to take it off their hands, it's going onto a TD5 XS which we bought recently and that currently has a tiny sports steering wheel fitted so the wheel I am looking for needs the lugs on the back to activate the indicator canceling.

Based a little bit South of Birmingham so can collect locally or if you can arrange to post that would be even better.. Is there such a thing as too many Defenders?....
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Swine&Small



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Excuse my ignorance, which manifests itself in many ways, but I thought the TD5 had a 36 spline steering wheel.
Apologies if being stupid again. Confused 1983 Series 3 Pick up in Marine Blue
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1966 Morris Convertible
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yeah the TD5 is a 36 spline, not a 48. Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back

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If it’s a genuine factory Td5 XS it would have been built with a 36 spline column as the XS was a posher CSW Smile  1988 90 Td5 NAS soft top
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Oldowner



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The half posh td5 county csw has 36 spline too Very Happy

For anoraks all around that chart is wrong too as the base spec 2015MY was fitted with the D type wheel with DSC.
Post #799367 24th Oct 2019 7:17pm
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NAS90



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Can't explain the why, but it's a late model TD5, XS spec from the factory and is definitely a 48 spline not a 36 wheel Is there such a thing as too many Defenders?....
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Post #799373 24th Oct 2019 7:46pm
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Swine&Small



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Could the steering column have been changed ? 1983 Series 3 Pick up in Marine Blue
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2012 VW T5 Camper
Quod Abundat Non Obstat.
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It's more likely that LR just used whatever they had to hand when building it. There have been lots of reported instances where the number of splines don't match that chart, which is why the usual advice is to physically count them rather than relying on what should have been. Darren

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ibexman



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My Td5 has 48 splines late 2006
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Swine&Small



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Doh ! Banging Head 1983 Series 3 Pick up in Marine Blue
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A non Station wagon Td5 (soft top, pick up, van sides) would have had a 48 spline and a flat wheel.

As the OP’s 110 had an aftermarket wheel on it there’s a chance the wrong one was bought by whoever fitted it and the column was changed!

Even Defender production wasn’t really a case of “fit whatever is at hand”.

The two different splined columns were for the two different style steering wheels.

Although there was a batch of non-leather station wagon (lumpy) wheels that ended up on XS Pumas, I’m not sure that standard production station wagons would have ended up with the flat Tdi-type wheel (excepting special builds etc) just for the sake of “using what’s to hand”.  1988 90 Td5 NAS soft top
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LandRoverAnorak



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Even Defender production wasn’t really a case of “fit whatever is at hand”.

The two different splined columns were for the two different style steering wheels.


Except that the leather-clad XS wheel was available in both 36 and 48 spline versions, which makes it entirely possible in this particular case.

Anyway, experience tells us that something must have happened. There are two people in this thread alone that have the 'wrong' number of splines on their wheel. There may, of course, have actually been a plan within LR that explains this but regardless, there are numerous vehicles running around with a different steering column than the table above suggests. They can't all have had their columns replaced. Darren

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United Kingdom 2015 Defender 90 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Montalcino Red
The lumpy wheel only became 48 spline midway through 2008MY production when the 36 spline column was stopped and all Defenders went over to 48 spline.

At the time a Td5 XS was built the wheel fitted was only available in a 36 spline version.

Anyway, it's all a mystery. My research and the resulting table from my old site is a very good starting point for what should be fitted, but who knows what's happened after any Defender left the factory Smile  1988 90 Td5 NAS soft top
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