Thread: 47-55.1 Steering wheel re-size
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Old 05-10-2024, 10:24 PM   #5
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Re: Steering wheel re-size

`Now you have me wondering if I kept the wheel I took out of the 51 donor cab.

I'm thinking that the one I saw and it may have been a HAMB tech article used a smaller hoop welded to the spokes and they routered grooves in the plywood or mfd board to make a mold to pour the resin in to mold the wheel.

The big problem with AD truck wheels and probably the 53 BelAir wheel I have saved back for my 48 is the bakelite that the wheel is made of to begin with. That stuff gets brittle and does't play well with other materials.
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