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I've recently painted my 52' 3100 original steering wheel and I'm now in the process of re-installing it. After putting the horn plate and washer on, the nut won't tighten down flush with the center threads. I didn't take a picture before I removed the wheel, but I'm pretty sure the nut was down pass the end of the center post. What am I doing wrong?
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The only way to know for sure is to pull it again and measure the depth of splines on both the wheel and the mast. If the depth on the mast is greater than on the wheel and there are more threads than the width of the nut you should have threads showing.

Hopefully parts are in correctly and seated. I'm sure nut is supposed to be flush or below end of shaft. Recheck that splines are not damaged on shaft or in wheel. After all is double checked, Torque nut to 25-30 Ft Lbs to see if wheel moves down. I assume a turn signal switch is not blocking. If it is a Non Stock nut, it may be too thick.

Update:
I used a Dremel tool on the steering wheel and started sanding down the smooth shaft area directly behind the splines which was covered in paint over spray. The result is that it helped the steering wheel slide further down onto the splines.
Does anyone know if the steering wheel splines slide all of the way down flush with the steering column splines?
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If you get past the end with nut and you torque to 25-30, you are done. I believe it's a tapered fit. You can't tell someone how far a particular tapered fit will go except to say nut past the end of threads. The required torque is what is given.