Boat Steering

I cut a hole in the dashboard with a hole saw and then used a wood rasp to get the desired angle.

The steering boss was sunk into the dash to get the steering wheel spacing correct, so it will need brackets to mount it to the back.

Here i have made some wooden blocks that i glued and screwed to the dashboard, then the metal brackets were screwed to this . The steering mount is now securely fastened.





                                                                                                
                                                                                                  

The steering rack was fixed to the pinion with bearings and then the rack was mounted to two wooden battens.










The steering wheel came from Lake Michigan and is an original 1950S Boat wheel. It was in need of some TLC so after using some paint stripper to get the old paint off i primed the wheel with grey Zinc primer then applied 4 coats of white primer to prepare for the top coats . I decided to go with the blue and white theme that used for the seats and sprayed the half the wheel with gloss white then masked off and used gloss blue , I layed 6 coats of each colour and then finished with anouther 6 coats of clear laquer .