Steering wheel restoration

Hello everyone. Lately, I have been working on the interior of my '69 Elf. One of the worst condition items on my list was my steering wheel. I thought about purchasing a new rally looking wheel but I thought I should at least TRY to restore the original one. This is what I did. Not sure if it was proper or not... but it seemed to work for my purposes.



Before Restoration: Top View


Before Restoration: Paint scaling


Before Restoration: The largest of many cracks


Before Restoration: Dents


Sanded the entire surface with foam sanding pads


Preparation for Bondo


Bondo applied to all dents and cracks


Top View: After sanding of Bondo


Bottom View: After sanding of Bondo


First of two coats of black primer


First of three coats of black enamel paint


After Restoration


Restored and reinstalled in car

Nice job.

I did a similar repair on my steering wheel with very good results. I used JB Weld epoxy to repair the cracks. I guess time will tell on the durability of the repair and refinish.



Jim

I probably should have used JB weld on that big crack.

Fibire glass would of bin stronger. But looks goooood

a nice job well done and i hope it endures - i have an old wheel in the garage to do a similiar thing on......one day - something else on the to do list

nice work!

im lucky as mine is still in reasonable nick, but with only 14,800 on clock its not had much use!