repairing a steering wheel

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What do you guys use as a filler for the cracks in the steering wheel. I have a new grant wheel I purchased to replace it, but think I would prefer to keep the original wheel. I am keeping my 65 Formula S stock
I see Eastwood has a kit they sale, but would rather purchase products locally
Thanks
 
Just get some PC-7 and undercut the cracks so you have a better chance of making a great repair. here was mine
Da start.
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rough shape , but I bead blasted the whole steering wheel before using PC-7

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put together with PC -7

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fixed the broken areas (next time on another one I made a Jig to hold the dremel and sand the Grips., soooo much faster and better spaced than by hand)
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sticking all the broken parts together (lots of hand work, faster with a dremel last wheel)
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automotive primer and paint to finish it off. Base coat/ clear coat finish.
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You should be able to find the PC7 locally. My wife bought the kit from POR15 as a gift - haven't tried it yet.
 
PC7 available at hardware or auto parts store.
Thanks
 
66Dvert said:
Just get some PC-7 and undercut the cracks so you have a better chance of making a great repair. here was mine
Da start.
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rough shape , but I bead blasted the whole steering wheel before using PC-7

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put together with PC -7

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fixed the broken areas (next time on another one I made a Jig to hold the dremel and sand the Grips., soooo much faster and better spaced than by hand)
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sticking all the broken parts together (lots of hand work, faster with a dremel last wheel)
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automotive primer and paint to finish it off. Base coat/ clear coat finish.
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Your wheel looks as good as new. Thanks for sharing
 
66Dvert said:
Just get some PC-7 and undercut the cracks so you have a better chance of making a great repair. here was mine
Da start.
View attachment 1715016870
rough shape , but I bead blasted the whole steering wheel before using PC-7

View attachment 1715016868
put together with PC -7

View attachment 1715016871

fixed the broken areas (next time on another one I made a Jig to hold the dremel and sand the Grips., soooo much faster and better spaced than by hand)
View attachment 1715016872


sticking all the broken parts together (lots of hand work, faster with a dremel last wheel)
View attachment 1715016873

automotive primer and paint to finish it off. Base coat/ clear coat finish.
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Nice work! Hard to believe that's the same wheel.
 
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66Dvert said:
Just get some PC-7 and undercut the cracks so you have a better chance of making a great repair. here was mine
Da start.
View attachment 1715016870
rough shape , but I bead blasted the whole steering wheel before using PC-7

View attachment 1715016868
put together with PC -7

View attachment 1715016871

fixed the broken areas (next time on another one I made a Jig to hold the dremel and sand the Grips., soooo much faster and better spaced than by hand)
View attachment 1715016872


sticking all the broken parts together (lots of hand work, faster with a dremel last wheel)
View attachment 1715016873

automotive primer and paint to finish it off. Base coat/ clear coat finish.
View attachment 1715016866

View attachment 1715016865
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Your wheel **** is awesome. Inspired me for sure! At least 70'hours worth, but a happy camper!
 
I have one in real good shape except for a few scratches and some shallow gouges. Would you reccomend sanding and then grooving out the gouged areas for filler?
 
toolmanmike said:
I have one in real good shape except for a few scratches and some shallow gouges. Would you reccomend sanding and then grooving out the gouged areas for filler?
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Toolmanmike: I would get the most of them undercut ( not V but /\ so the filler has a better grip.) Be warned it takes a bit more of your time to do with a lightly damaged wheel than the one I did. It is just more work to do the little gouges and scratches than the deeper ones. You might be better off undercutting them all a lot deeper (I would if I was doing it so I could get a decent amount of epoxy into the scratches and gouges) , even the little ones just to improve the grip of the PC-7 to the wheel and the actual time doing the under cutting by trying to deepen it "just a bit".
 
1969383S said:
:thumbsup:


Your wheel **** is awesome. Inspired me for sure! At least 70'hours worth, but a happy camper!
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Thanks, it was right close to 70 hours on the repair for that one. The next one I did I cheated and used a Jig that another member on here said he used. I blocked up the dremel with a 1/2" sanding drum on it(3/4 drum would have been better) on a couple pieces of shaped wood to hold in in the correct position so I could just rotate the wheel to a different finger grip section and cut the whole thing down to about 25 hours time to final primer (shooting medium metal flake on the wheel "sucked"since I have not shot real metal flake in 15 years)
 
66Dvert said:
Thanks, it was right close to 70 hours on the repair for that one. The next one I did I cheated and used a Jig that another member on here said he used. I blocked up the dremel with a 1/2" sanding drum on it(3/4 drum would have been better) on a couple pieces of shaped wood to hold in in the correct position so I could just rotate the wheel to a different finger grip section and cut the whole thing down to about 25 hours time to final primer (shooting medium metal flake on the wheel "sucked"since I have not shot real metal flake in 15 years)
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That was easy then!

My wheel was not that broken and my 70+ hours was tough but worth it. That PC-7 can be tough stuff! Cure time is everything, wait too long and it is almost impossible to cut down. Too early and it pulls away then more is needed! Fine line on when to work it.
 
1969383S said:
That was easy then!

My wheel was not that broken and my 70+ hours was tough but worth it. That PC-7 can be tough stuff! Cure time is everything, wait too long and it is almost impossible to cut down. Too early and it pulls away then more is needed! Fine line on when to work it.
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I cheated on the PC-7. I have an old oven from the kitchen that I use to powder coat small parts and the wheel went into the oven @ 175 for 20 minutes to heat soak the thing. Cure time dropped wayyyyy down when I used the epoxy on the warm wheel and I was able to sand within 4 hours of warming the part up, oh and warming it up made the sanding a lot easier too! The first time I used pc-7 I waited from Tuesday to l the weekend day to sand #$%$% like sanding a granite rock with 3000 grit paper.
 
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