I recently purchased this steering wheel for less than a buck.I thought it would be the cats *** as a steering wheel for my shoebox.But you get thinking too hard and now I'm going back and forth about using it.I'm the type of person that doesn't like being like everybody else.Also I'm not sure if it would be "legal(as if that ever stopped anybody before)
That is as cool as cool gets but I would think you would grow tired of it very quickly on anything more than a show car. I'll give you your buck back if you don't want it though.
Let me know if ya' start to run this. I'll be sure to stay off the roads for a few days, or at least until ya' kill yourself and/or someone else.
If those knobs spin, it might not be too bad with power steering. Still nothing I'd want to WOT countersteer, and using that on manual steer seems like a deathwish.
you gotta have power steering for that to work as intended, that thing must be big if its for a semi. I'd run it on my rig, would hate to be pulled over and explain "what the **** is that"
If that's a White wheel I could see it maybe being used on a yard dog or switcher or whatever you want to call them but on the highway, I don't think so.
Ok until you came to a sudden stop with one of the balls pointing upward. Would make a nice spherical imprint in your forehead. Does look kind of cool however and definitely different. Remember those almost rectangular (early 60s) clear metalflake Mopar steering wheels? Saw one of those a while back.
It's ok til ya' crash, then the cops are gon'a say it's unsafe equipment. That BUCK might cost alot more than you think !
I'd think that not having the outer rim like a regular wheel would make emergency steering difficult, if not impossible. Say you skid into a curb avoiding a kid that darts out into the street and the wheel is jerked out of your hands. What do you grab? With a regular wheel you grab any part of the rim and make steering corrections. Trying to grab one of the 3 spokes while they're spinning around would be real hard. I'd avoid using it as-is, but with an outer rim(say a pearly job) on it'd be pretty cool.
I'm betting that "Steering wheel" is more likely a wheel from a drill press or milling machine or similiar tool and not for a motorvechile at all
Isn't a White a truck? Ah well...it'd make a nice center piece, prong things don't seem feasible as anything to steer with. One of my friend's dad used to drive customers home from their general store in an old Jeep, part of the service or something. So one time, their going across a creek, and the steering wheel comes off for whatever reason, never been fully explained, so he pulls out a pair of vice grips and continues the drive to their house and back.
Man that thing is kewl and shoot cant beat the price, I'd be for connecting the points somehow. I had a steering wheel that i cut in my younger days that had a v shape to and went to turn one night, did not have a shirt on and cut my belly and was always getting a bruise from it and i had power steering. So i'd say keep and modify somehow. Let us know whatcha do. good luck
Stick it on your drill press,for a unique shop conversation piece,but NO it wouldn't be practical or safe as a steering wheel.
THis wheel brings back a painful memory, My first car was a 55 stude champion with a spinner on the steering wheel. I was fishtailing it around a corner (i wont call it a power slide for obvious reasons) and I lost my grip on the knob and the wheel went to spinning and the knob hit my hand about 3 times before I could get a grip on the wheel again. HURT LIKE HELL! **** canned the knob.
I had pretty much the same thing happen with my first car long ago. The meat on my hand was badly bruised and I was thankful that no bones were broken. After that I took the stupid knob off and it went in the "curio" drawer. The weren't called "Suicide Knobs" for nothing.
Wonder if you could make up an Al rim (hoop) and join some Lexan half-rounds to the inside (3 pcs) & outside (single pc) of the hoop, polish the lexan and you'd have a standard "wheel" ? Note that you want to maintain hoop strength, so you don't end up piercing your-self if an unplanned "stop" occured. I'd rather buy a sound wheel, or test the hell out of a constructed one. Tie-rod ends, steering u-joints and steering wheels are places to use best quality components.
I was thinking Lexan too -Laminate several layers together, maybe some pinstripes on the layers, etc. Lotsa possibilities.
That reminds me of my buddy who stripped the spline on his steering column....so he just clamped on a pair of vice grips and drove it like that for about 2 months till he finally fixed it....he had to have pretty fast hands after turning the corner....
I figure the first time you go around a corner and as the wheel comes back to center and plays "wipeout" on your nutsac you may have second thoughts on the installation <grin>
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