New steering wheel

 

New steering wheel from Dennis Carpenter. I have had it for quite a while, but when test fitting it with the turn indicator mechanism i noticed that they had tried to replicate the canceling clip on the backside of the steering wheel. BUT the one who have done it have absolutely NO IDEA on what it is and how it works. In the picture below you notice a paint scratch between the 2 spot welds. That is the canceling "hook" on the turn indicator assembly that is trying to grab the ends of the canceling clip. BUT THERE IS A SPOT WELD IN ITS WAY.  So the spot weld work as a cam lobe and just guides the canceling hook up onto the canceling clip. Rendering it completely useless. Big Sigh. Good intentions but it turned out so bad. 

So decided to hack the aftermarket canceling clip away and mount the old one. I noticed the new one is of a soft sheet metal (thats why they had to weld it in place) the old one is out of spring steel and is abit of a paint to get in place, But once in place it wont budge. 

15" -56 Stock looking steering wheel??

Would that be possible?? I have seen in a Classic truck magazine a few years ago a guy that made a 15" ish stock looking steering wheel by taking the ring form a nother steering wheel and weld and mold it onto the stock centre. However I actually got a hold of this guy to ask him if he could think of doing a nother one. His answere was actually no, and it wasn´t because he didnt´want to but that he said it always cracks in the joint between the new ring and old centre despite what ever he tried doing. 

So that borned the idea if it would be possible to actually make a completley new steering wheel from scratch. So I made some googleing about how to cast your own steering wheel, and it actually dont seems to difficult....

How to make a steering wheel mold

How to cast your new steering wheel

This doesn´t show a steering wheel with a steel frame, but I figure that is in the details.

So I started out making a cad model of the steering wheel I want. Turned out about like this. A few details remains.