Steering Wheel Restoration/Repair?

  we carry new steering wheels   what model????  1-800-254-3116 for ordering

Like Steve says. Use the epoxy, take your time, fill a little at a time, sand carefully to reshape missing areas. Go slow and prep it to 110% satisfaction before painting. Personally, I would only spend the time on an easy to fix cracked wheel, or an imposible to replace wheel like the early B and RC wheels with covered spokes. 

I have fixed a few and I take my small sandblaster and clean the rust and dirt out of the cracks and then fill them with JB Weld. It dries quick and sands pretty easy. I usually rough it down with 80 grit and then use something finer to finish. Then I prime and paint it and I like to clear coat it. It really doesn't take me all that long to repair one.JP

One of the tricks to doing a repair like you are attempting and making it last goes completely against a person's nature. You have to make it worse to fix it. Cracks must be opened up so the surfaces are fresh and clean. If the steel underneath is rusty it has to go under the blast cabinet. The entire surface that needs repair needs to be roughed up. Loose, and questionable material has to be pried away or cut off. Now that it looks like you trashed  the wheel completely, it is ready for expoxy. I use Devecon but any premium slow cureing expoxy compound will do the trick. Do not use fast cureing, do not use dime store materials. The epoxy is best roughed in for shape when it reaches a semi hard stage when you cut the blobs off with a sharp knife. Itehn go to a die grinder with carbide burr and finaly to sand paper. As for coatings you are pretty well limited to paint. I used enamel on mine and yest it wears off faster than the original coatings but it is cheap and can be reapplied as needed.

Edited by Butch(OH) - 03 Feb 2010 at 9:13pm

Is  there a crear coat or something like it to protect the new stearing wheels from Going bad after being out in the sun. I mean the black stuff that rubs off onto your hands.