silvermilnec
Albert Park
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- 20 Feb 2012
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Happy new year guys!
Mike at Sterling kindly sent me two wheels to try and make one good wheel. Unfortunately only one was MF but wrong colour the other was none MF and the right colour. Anyway I was sat with a mate watching the football yesterday (wives had gone shopping) I mentioned the two wheels saying don't think I can do anything with them, he an engineer and said let's have a look.
2 hours later and all done, see pics hopefully they might help if anyone else needs to do similar ðŸ‘
In order this is what we did, well I mean my friend did😂
It was easy enough to take off the front fascia we didn't need with a screwdriver and tapping at each corner, this caused some damage to the fascia but that didn't matter.
We then measured the distances of the pins that keep the fascia in place and make it difficult to remove without damage.
Now to the steering wheel with the MF fascia that I need to get off with no damage.
We took a grinder with a cutting disc and cut through the back of the steering wheel gradually until we exposed the back of the locating pins. When all 6 were exposed we used a punch and hammer to tap them out.
All the pdk and mf controls come off together these are then straightforward to unscrew with a number of small screws.
All I need to do now is decide what colour and finish I get the fascia done at wicked coatings, I'm thinking basalt matt soft touch, suggestion please!!
Hope this helps someone I'd like to think I've helped someone as it's usually one of you guys helping me!!
Just thought of another question, on the MF fascia it has a + and - in white next to the rota wheel do these light up?
Mike at Sterling kindly sent me two wheels to try and make one good wheel. Unfortunately only one was MF but wrong colour the other was none MF and the right colour. Anyway I was sat with a mate watching the football yesterday (wives had gone shopping) I mentioned the two wheels saying don't think I can do anything with them, he an engineer and said let's have a look.
2 hours later and all done, see pics hopefully they might help if anyone else needs to do similar ðŸ‘
In order this is what we did, well I mean my friend did😂
It was easy enough to take off the front fascia we didn't need with a screwdriver and tapping at each corner, this caused some damage to the fascia but that didn't matter.
We then measured the distances of the pins that keep the fascia in place and make it difficult to remove without damage.
Now to the steering wheel with the MF fascia that I need to get off with no damage.
We took a grinder with a cutting disc and cut through the back of the steering wheel gradually until we exposed the back of the locating pins. When all 6 were exposed we used a punch and hammer to tap them out.
All the pdk and mf controls come off together these are then straightforward to unscrew with a number of small screws.
All I need to do now is decide what colour and finish I get the fascia done at wicked coatings, I'm thinking basalt matt soft touch, suggestion please!!
Hope this helps someone I'd like to think I've helped someone as it's usually one of you guys helping me!!
Just thought of another question, on the MF fascia it has a + and - in white next to the rota wheel do these light up?
