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MG TD TF 1500 - steering wheel rebuild

Has anyone had the steering wheel rebuilt? Any leads on a company redoing the plastic? What is the material, plastic of some type?
Are the molds still available? Or who made the wheels for the factory?
I suppose a nice wood could be glued and shaped around the metal.
What have others done? What colors were available? Seems like I've seen black and a beigh/cream.

Mike
Mike

Nardi/momo/Steering wheels for sale/Moss.
capdave

Mike - Contact Jim Ellis at 360-697-1471 or at his postal address, 4143 Gunderson Rd. NE, Poulsbo, WA 98370. Jim rebuilds steering wheels for all modles and has all the molds. That said, you might want to take Capdave's advice and order one from Moss as Jim's prices are a bit on the high side. Good luck - Dave
David DuBois

Any one else?
Tks Dave(s) No MSG

Try John Kimble Engineering in the U.K., for a Brooklands Wheel. This being said, I have just finished making a wood rim for my wheel.Finished product is beautiful, & i'm as dumb as a rock when it comes to wood working. I found a how to article in the MGB BBS.Short version> soak 5-6 strips of pine approx.6' x 1&1/16 x 1/4inch. in a pvc tube for 3 weeks, bend around a form, & let dry, epoxy 2 of them [one inside, one out side of the rim. You may want to rout a channel for the ring in the wood or grind the frame to the same width as the wood, frame [circle] is 5/16 dia. or have 2 custom cut filler strips of 5/16 width cut.[Or just use wood filler] Wood glue all other strips after the first 2 are epoxied to the frame.Sand/stain/buff w/ 000 steel wool. Finish with clear A&B epoxy polyurethane. Happy Easter, Len
Len Fanelli

Eastwood has a kit for wheel rebuild with epoxy putty. I did one and it is very good. Gives very good i
nstructions for all to be done
Ellis Carlton

Mike,

I repaired mine a few years ago with a two-part marine epoxy I got at Lowes or Home Depot (forgot which). My wheel was coming apart at the connections with the center wires. I remove as much of the loose stuff as I could to make sure the connections with the rime and center wires wer solid first. Mixed up some of the eopxy (two-part, clay like epoxy - you take equal parts and knead them togther) and placed in the area to be repaired and formed it as best I could at that time. After it hardened, I used sand paper and a Dremel tool to form it into final shape. After it was done I repainted the rim with a good black spray-paint (as the wheel was black when I got the car). I'm not sure how one would repaint if you had the original beige/cream mottled finish.

At any rate, the fix took me about 3-hours worth of work over a few days, and cost about $15. So far its been three years, and holding very well. It is very tough to remember where the repairs were made.

Larry Thompson
Larry Thompson

I think it is best to find a good rebuilder. I purchased a new wheel from Moss, and after about three years the wheel started having fine cracks and turned a pinkish color, and this in an always garaged TF. Larry
Larry V. Brown

I made up a wooden rim by glueing up two segmented circles, then turned a shallow grouve for the metal rim, in each circles, on a face plate lathe. I then glued them over the rim with the joints staggered, and shaped this with a spokeshave, and filed in the finger grips with a rasp. It looks and feels great. Dave
Dave Broadbridge

This thread was discussed between 30/03/2002 and 03/04/2002

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