Posted By: bigsbigelow
Fixing bent steering wheel? - 02/22/11 06:13 PM
Does any one know of any place that fixes bent steering wheels? If not, how did you do it? I was thinking of making a clam shell device of the same diameter as the wheel and torquing it around the wheel to get it round. Then (leaving the clam shell on) just pounding it against a flat surface to get it square.
Posted By: Montclaire
Re: Fixing bent steering wheel? - 02/22/11 08:19 PM
I don't know if I would trust a 'bent' steering wheel. The metal has already been stressed, and may 'break'
on impact, rather then bend once fixed. Half of a steering wheel stuck in your sternum would not be a happy picture.
Posted By: bigsbigelow
Re: Fixing bent steering wheel? - 02/22/11 08:42 PM
Good point. You have me thinking.
Posted By: Fury Fan
Re: Fixing bent steering wheel? - 02/22/11 10:13 PM
FWIW, back in the mid-70s my Dad cut a 62 Fury in pieces so he could haul it off in a stepside pickup.
I remember him swinging repeatedly with a sledgehammer on the steering wheel -- and it took some serious hits to flatten it into the dash. (we were poor and hillbilly and Dad didn't have special tools like a steering wheel remover)
Based on the 'clamshell tool' originally described:
A steering wheel close enough that you could consider massaging back into shape isn't going to become an eggshell because of the massaging.
Posted By: astjp2
Re: Fixing bent steering wheel? - 02/23/11 10:52 PM
Just straighten it and run it, its not going to break with a little bend, its not that brittle. Tim