[Mgs] MGB steering wheel question

Max Heim max_heim at sbcglobal.net
Sat Dec 12 17:21:40 MST 2009


If you can find one of those sew-on leather covers (not the horrible
spiral-wrap plastic ones that seem to be on every car at the junkyard), you
can wrap the rim with some thin packing foam -- voila! Padded leather rim.


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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires




on 12/12/09 9:49 AM, Charley & Peggy Robinson at ccrobins at ktc.com wrote:

> The '70 I foolishly sold had a flat-spoked wheel covered in leather,
> filled the hands beautifully.    My '69 has the wire-spoked, plastic
> covered wheel, so thin it makes my fingers cramp when I drive the car
> very far.  I've kept it for authenticity and out of laziness.
> 
>   CR
> 
> 
> Paul Hunt wrote:
>> According to Clausager the four different types of column (62-67 Mk1,
>> Mk2 67-69, 69-76, 77 and later) all had different splines.  There were
>> three different versions of the 'banjo' wheel, it didn't change to the
>> flat drilled 'spokes' until 1970.


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