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04/29/21: Over the last couple of weeks, I have been working on restoring my steering wheel. It had the usual cracks and had been painted off white, the same as the rest of the interior. My plan is to eventually change the color, although we haven’t decided on the interior color, the wheel will be black.

I briefly enterained the idea of purchasing a new wheel but the two hundred fifty dollar price tag, put those thoughts to rest.

After watching several YouTube videos on the process, I tackled the task. I vee’d out the cracks, sanded any adjacent paint, used JD Weld to fill them in then sanded them down. Then I sprayed several coats of Rust-oleum Filling Primer. More sanding, more primer then painted it with Rust-oleum Appliance Epoxy spray paint. My understanding with the epoxy spray paint, since its not a catalyzed epoxy, is it needs several weeks to harden sufficiently. Fortunately it will be several weeks before I get back to working on the truck. I have a couple areas with dust so I plan to wet sand it out with 2000 grit paper then compound it smooth.

I cannot believe how time consuming this project was. I could only work on it an hour or so each day, as my hands and fingers got really tired. I have well over 10 hours in this project. I can now see why the new or restored wheels cost so much. Overall, I am pleased with the results.