[TR] TR3 Steering Wheels

[Scott Suhring]

Bondo makes a nice product that is used to repair bumpers. You can spread it
into cracks and gouges, let it harden and then sand it down, using
progressively finer grade paper. It dries black so you do not have to paint.
Once you are satisfied, you can polish it out with Brasso or a similar
product to get a final sheen.

Scott Suhring
Mechanicsburg, PA
'70 TR6
'59 TR3

-----Original Message-----
From: triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net
[mailto:triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Brian Jones
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 5:25 AM
To: triumphs at autox.team.net
Subject: [TR] TR3 Steering Wheels

The steering wheel on my TR4 seemed to be a grey, fibrous material. I  
took care to not breathe it in.

You can buy a kit from Eastwood:
http://www.eastwoodco.com/jump.jsp?itemID=2569&itemType=PRODUCT

Or you can put a kit together yourself.

PC7 is the filler in the Eastwood kit. It is available from any decent  
hardware store, HD, and Lowes. It sets to a similar density to the  
original wheel casting.

For the cracks, a used a dremel to cut out grooves from this ||, to  
wider fissures shaped /__\ as much as possible, much wider than the  
original cracks.

Give yourself the time to sand the PC7 back to the original contours.  
This is the time-consuming part, if you take care.

The pick up a primer and top coat of your choice. I went with an  
plastic adhesive promoter first in case the sanded original surface  
had any plastic-like tendencies, then a sandable primer (x2), then top  
coat (x 4 coats).

Brian
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