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C0F3B135-DB51-4B58-9441-A549FB68EC6C.jpegSo, I’ve stumbled upon two 240z steering wheels in the past couple weeks during my junkyard explorations.  They were really rough but were only $30 so I thought I attempt a home restoration.  I thought I’d share my experience in this process.  I know there are other posts but I don’t think anyone has posted a wheel that looked as bad as the one I’m restoring. 

I’ve completed the clean up and strip down.  I used a small palm sander for the metal with 240 grit and 320 grit wet sand on the wood.  I’ve masked the wood off and will prime, paint and clear coat the metal today.  

Here is the wheel as it looked after pulling for the rusted Z.  

It had some green algae on it too.  Car was in a pseudo swap in Mississippi with no drivers door so I wasn’t surprised.  

 

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So the wood/resin wheel portion of this steering wheel of mine sanded has that straw look you mentioned but wasn’t the original color a reddish mahogany. I was going to re-tint and then coat with a glossy polyurethane.


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I used 0000 steel wool on mine then satin black on the metal. Looks good to me.

Gear knob was dipped in minwax helsman satin poly about 20 times over a month or so. It filled in the cracks on the shift pattern map.

 

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Here is the knob sanded down. The shift knob map was totally destroyed. Trying to tint both the wheel and knob to match. Won’t be easy because they’re different materials and won’t accept color the same.
Speaking of the shift knob map. A 5 speed Nissan one seems impossible to find but the old Toyota one looks almost identical. I just wonder if the diameter is the same.
Here’sf41c6942ad281079e0d1a907725c003c.jpg the shift knob map on a old FJ. It’s only $12



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11 hours ago, Av8ferg said:

I don’t think anyone has posted a wheel that looked as bad as the one I’m restoring.

That is pretty bad, you definitely win the award if you can bring that one back.

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