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Steering wheel repair

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Have any of you repaired your cracked steering wheel? If so can you share the details of what you did and how it came out?
 
I used plexus. Ground out the cracks then finished with a little bondo. 5 years, it has one hairline crack I can see. Leads a rough life on and off at the track.
Doug

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PC-7 is good just grind the cracks down to the steel and fill them. Sand and paint
 
I had Doug do the wheel for my Belvedere. Awesome work and super good guy to chat with. I had him make the rim thicker as well so it feel more like a modern wheel but still has the finger grips on the backside.

https://www.facebook.com/TheSteeringWheelGuy/

If you check his timeline in October of 2015 you'll see the wheel he did for me.
 
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What would one expect to pay for getting a wheel done.
 
repaired mine with por15 epoxy putty and several hours with a dremel and sanding.
Its not pperfect but hella better than when I started.

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With the putty you can form it to be very close to the shape you need then just sand it down to the proper lines. My friend was amazed that he didn't have to buy a repop.. This was my first ever attempt at it. There is a video on youtube that I watched several times.. The putty is 20 bucks.. and a day or so of your time. Way better than spending 400.00 or buying a 300.00 repop..

link to the putty

 
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Gary's did mine, fantastic job. Four or five years old now, although it has been stored in climate controlled garage.
 
PC epoxy fix. I used to fix the cracked steering wheel using this. Works well.
 
repaired mine with por15 epoxy putty and several hours with a dremel and sanding.
Its not pperfect but hella better than when I started.

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Hello BeepBeepRR - pulling up an olden thread a fellow member had linked me to as I posted few days ago asking for any tips from folks having restoed steering wheels. I came across a product called Plasti-Fix I watched on a tube clip that looked interesting. I see some suggested PC7, but some also indicated it hasn't held up over a few years. You mentioned using POR15 epoxy...could I ask how this has held up since your resto? The wheel you posted looks similar to the one I'm getting from a guy on ebay...needs 'work'. Thanks!
 
Hello BeepBeepRR - pulling up an olden thread a fellow member had linked me to as I posted few days ago asking for any tips from folks having restoed steering wheels. I came across a product called Plasti-Fix I watched on a tube clip that looked interesting. I see some suggested PC7, but some also indicated it hasn't held up over a few years. You mentioned using POR15 epoxy...could I ask how this has held up since your resto? The wheel you posted looks similar to the one I'm getting from a guy on ebay...needs 'work'. Thanks!
Since the car sits outside most of the time. The por15 has settled a little. It still has not cracked but its a little lower than it was. I think it just shrunk in the heat. Its not terribly noticable unless you are looking for it. I guess it could be done again just to fill the low spots. But yea for the most part its solid.
 
Since the car sits outside most of the time. The por15 has settled a little. It still has not cracked but its a little lower than it was. I think it just shrunk in the heat. Its not terribly noticable unless you are looking for it. I guess it could be done again just to fill the low spots. But yea for the most part its solid.
Appreciate you letting me know. As I’ve pondered on this, lol, I’m dreaming the eventual cracking isn’t going to happen – expansion & contraction despite my old ride in a heated garage. Ancient plastic is gonna crack. Part of my asking was what guys have used and how it is to work with. The stuff you mentioned sounds good as I’ve hunted down all the various products that can be used.
 
I watched a video of a guy doing it and decided to give it a try. He does it for other people and it looked fantastic when he was done. It's not anything you would notice glancing at the roadrunner. You would definitely have to be looking for the issue. If you have a badly cracked wheel I would say give it a shot. Some of the cracks in the roadrunner wheel were so large that it took quite a bit of figuring on how to make the finger grooves and the chunk that was out of the center of the wheel. But I got it figured out. I took a paint can cap and sliced the very top of it off then cut it in half to give me a half round shape. Taped that to the wheel and filled in with the putty. HERE is the link to the stuff I used.

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I watched a video of a guy doing it and decided to give it a try. He does it for other people and it looked fantastic when he was done. It's not anything you would notice glancing at the roadrunner. You would definitely have to be looking for the issue. If you have a badly cracked wheel I would say give it a shot. Some of the cracks in the roadrunner wheel were so large that it took quite a bit of figuring on how to make the finger grooves and the chunk that was out of the center of the wheel. But I got it figured out. I took a paint can cap and sliced the very top of it off then cut it in half to give me a half round shape. Taped that to the wheel and filled in with the putty. HERE is the link to the stuff I used.

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THANKS again for taking your time on this; super helpful! The wheel I got has similar serious deterioration including around the center. It's on my to-do list to try to restore and hope I can snag the same success you had!
 
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