{"id":3706,"date":"2014-07-25T14:44:29","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T18:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/?p=3706"},"modified":"2014-07-25T14:45:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T18:45:40","slug":"how-to-disable-the-steering-wheel-lock-on-a-race-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/how-to-disable-the-steering-wheel-lock-on-a-race-car\/","title":{"rendered":"How to disable the steering wheel lock on a race car."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How to disable the steering wheel lock on a race car.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On our Toyota Celica we went to the trouble to drill out the security screws and remove the lock cylinder from the steering column. \u00a0Then I used a cut off wheel to shorten the locking pin until it no longer engaged the shaft.<\/p>\n<p>On our Sentra Race car, however I tried a tip I overheard somewhere. I drilled a 3\/8 hole in the cover on the bottom of the lock pin chamber. Something fell out. A spring maybe. After that the lock pin no longer engages when the key is removed. This was much simpler and quicker than removing the cylinder from the column.<\/p>\n<p>On my Rally Jeep, I simply removed the lock plate. However this required removing the steering wheel and using a lock plate removal tool. The Sentra was by far the easiest solution to disabling the steering wheel lock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to disable the steering wheel lock on a race car. &nbsp; On our Toyota Celica we went to the trouble to drill out the security screws and remove the lock cylinder from the steering column. \u00a0Then I used a cut off wheel to shorten the locking pin until it no longer engaged the shaft. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/how-to-disable-the-steering-wheel-lock-on-a-race-car\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to disable the steering wheel lock on a race car.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[210,44,35],"tags":[506],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3706"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3709,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706\/revisions\/3709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}