repair to steering wheel

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52 8n steering wheel, wheel is creacked in places all the way round. dont care to pull wheel and replace with new. how can i repair existing wheel?. can i fill in cracks? is there a tape or tape like material i can wrap around to cover steering wheel?, do they sell a stretchabel cover that would go over wheel? all ideas appreciated.
 
This is what I did to my 9n. I cleaned the cracks with a wire brush. Then filled them in with a putty that JBweld makes. After it dried I wrapped the wheel with black electrical tape.
 
I did pretty much the same - filled the cracks with epoxy putty, but painted the wheel after sanding where I had puttied with POR15 (just because I had some for another job) rather than taping. Tiny cracks have reappeared in the 20 years since but wheel is still very usable maybe in another 10 or 20 years I will have to repeat the process.
 

Over 20 years ago I used epoxy glue to fill the voids and cracks. Did it look pretty? not really. Did it work? yes. Since we are giving it a paint job decided to put on a new steering wheel. Have the old one hanging on the wall to remind us of when times were a lot leaner.
 
I used JB Weld on mine some of the cracks or gaps were as much as 3/16". It took several applications to fill the voids then sanded to reshape and finished with rustolium black. It looks great and has lasted 4 yrs. now BTW I got this idea here on this sight but I don't remember who to give credit to.
 
I have done a few different ways as others stated on fix I like bondo best. I then spray it with a couple of light coats Dupli-Truck Bed liner (black) from O'Reilly's. Dont drive till its good and dry. When applying bondo push it as deep as you can into the cracks.
 
Ditto what the others said. I've used filler materials. And then painted. On some workers, I've expended a 1$ roll of black electrical tape on and it's been good for a few years at a time.

Pulling it will makemitmeasier to fix. Some come off easy, some not. I'd at least check. If it won't come off easy, just put the acorn nut back on. :)
 
I used Devcon Plastic Steel on the topside cracks that weren't too gaping open so as to give strength and to save on epoxy. I used the Devcon where the spokes connect to the outer ring as well. I used Bondo on the very large cracks and on the underside.

I could have used the Devcon to build up the steering wheel material where it travels further up each spoke, but that fine point just seemed like a waste of epoxy so I only went up each spoke where and as far as necessary.

The Devcon is super hard and dries to a color so close to the wheel's color that I didn't bother with paint. I like the natural aged color of the wheel.

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If you're going to use a bondo product, use vettebond. It's much tougher and water proof as well. Regular bondo doesn't stand up to moisture well.
 
This is the type of waterproof short strand fiberglass Bondo I used and I don't think moisture will affect it to any discernible degree but time will tell.

They refer to this one as waterproof (maybe only if sealed) and as to ones they refer to as water "resistant" they say there's only 0.3% moisture absorption.

Maybe I'll have to seal the surfaces at a later date but I doubt it
very much.

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Ya Bondo has problems with water, thats one reason I spray a couple of coats of bed liner on it it looks great and moisture is shead. Bondo is easy to shape both rounded and finger groves.
 
I will take a look, is it easy to work? I tried some PC21 once but it took a while to set and would droop and was hard to shape, That is what a lot of steering wheel rebuilders sites online said worked good. I went back to Bondo.
 
Not being able to figure out who is talking to whom or about what, let me say this about that. :D

It has been pouring rain here in the Pacific Northwest for days, with maybe a half or whole day break every week . . . my tractor tent is dripping wet inside from the ceiling, so I put fabric and then a folded tarp over the tractor too (covering steering wheel and stick) . . . so there couldn't be a handier humidity test on my new Marlon Bondo steering wheel.

My topside cracks are mostly filled with my favorite epoxy,
and impervious to water naturally
Devcon Plastic steel

Does the bed liner stay stuck after a roughing up and not biodegrade in the sun? If so, I might try some on my wheel.

T
 
I have sold all but one and being a bed liner for
a pickup box it should hold up to everything and
it is the closest thing I could find to the
original finish. My biggest concern was would it
turn your hands black, so far no problems. I just
finished doing a grill guard with it.
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L.B.

That's a great looking wheel -- way better than mine and if that is the matt color of the bed liner . . . I like it!

Did you use some kind of filler to extend a little up the spokes, cause it looks different than new wheels I've seen . . . your outer ring kind of tapers off nicely right into the spokes.

The reason my wheel got so chewed up was the spinner that was bolted onto it.

T
 

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