Smart wheel woes...

Hi Scrapper: "Smart wheel" here also. Some love 'em, but not very pleased with it here (although it has been trouble free, so far). I looked into replacing with dash switches, at one time, and it is possible. All parts can be bought through KW. If i remember correctly, buying the dash panel with proper switches/holes was pricey, so i never did conversion. May do so when it does start causing headaches. hopefully the KW Parts Guy will be through here and help both of us. I will go back through notes to see if i can find any info...

 

I guess I'm just lucky because I've had like 5 trucks with the smart wheel and have NEVER had a problem with any of them.

 

No luck finding any notes.
As i remember, John was part of the discussion we had long time ago. (Hoping for your help here, John).
IIRC, there was a girl in the "other forum" that worked for a KW dealership and she provided info. She suddenly disappeared from forum...always suspected dealership got onto her providing to much good info for free?...

 

If you can't find something locally let me know the part # and I will check my local boneyard. It's like a giant candy store, and I've climbed around in about a dozen smartwheel trucks last week. Shoot me a PM if you want me to look for you.

 

My 2003 T600 had a smart wheel, but it also had a jake switch on the dash along with the cruise. It was an old Melton truck so maybe they ordered them that way ?? I only had the truck about 6 months but never had an issue with them.

 

Don't have a KW, but didd have similar troubles with my Volvo 780. Checking the connection at the base and giving it just a tiny bit more play in the cabling solved the problems that I was having, which seemed to be worse after tilting the wheel.

 

I removed the smart wheel on a 1996 W900L. I wouldn't say it was fun, but it is doable. The wiring is already there to put all switches back on the dash. Well worth doing in my opinion.