New steering wheel.
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What year? Until '94 you can. '95 - '97 have airbags, so no. You can find threads where people transplant other Toyota steering wheels onto '95 - '97 models, transferring the airbag into the new steering wheel.
I put a new Toyota steering wheel on my '94. Amayama currently has one in Japan for $167! (I paid ~$190). Part number 45100-60170-01.
I put a new Toyota steering wheel on my '94. Amayama currently has one in Japan for $167! (I paid ~$190). Part number 45100-60170-01.
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Thanks for you help
It’s a 96’. Do you know anything about getting new leather for it?
LINUS
Waiting for the Great Pumpkin
Thanks for you help
It’s a 96’. Do you know anything about getting new leather for it?
Lots of guys have had the OE wheel recovered, but that would require paying/having a core to send.
The one that comes to mind for best results / user positive results was a shop in TX - if the search here doesn’t produce the threads plug “leather wheel recover” into google with a IH8mud tag, you’ll get whoever has used the TX guy.
Seems like you want to budget some $175-$200, this isn’t a cheap fix.
Someone wrapped paracord around the rim as a ‘get me by’ - if you’re not into $200 or a amazon kit you stitch up yourself, that seemed like a decent option too.
Doesn't mean Amayama actually has stock. Their system apparently isn't 'real time' inventory except out of the UAE warehouse. Anything ex-Japan or ex-Australia is not real-time availability. I keep finding that out trying to get new oldstock parts for my 80. 
LINUS
Waiting for the Great Pumpkin
LS400 wheel = exactly the same as a LX450/FZJ80 wheel.
I’ve posted the LS400 wheel pics before, have an extra in black.
~$75 on fleabay all the time.
you can buy a steering wheel from someone parting out a rig and send that out to get redone. Replace the one you have and sell your old wheel.....
www.dallassteeringwheel.com is where a few have had theirs redone with good results.
I've had a couple of different adventures with steering wheels. The first thing I tried was buying a real leather cover on amazon for my model 100 rustbucket that requires stitching it on. It takes 2-3 hours (at least that is what it took me) but the results were overall pretty good. I did find that it is absolutely necessary to glue to the old steering wheel--otherwise it never quite feels right.
For my '93 model 80 I wanted to try to do the leather work myself. So I went to the junkyard and bought a decent wheel and got it put on the truck, taking the old, sad leather-covered one off. First I tried cleaning and re-sealing the old leather. The results were 'meah..' So I then stared at this thing in my apartment for a month or two. I've made things out of leather before, and I have the punches and thread and so forth, but the shape of a steering wheel is rather daunting.
Finally one weekend, fortified by a couple of beers, I just started:
I taught myself to do the 'baseball' stitch by watching a bunch of youtube videos and then making mistakes. I will skip a lot (and do a longer post later in a separate thread), but here is the finished results:
It was very satisfying to do this. The wheel is going on El Wahsh now. Will post a photo of the wheel in-situ. BTW, this is camel leather. I drove to the leather tannery set up by the Abu Dhabi government and its a pretty cool and modern facility. And they let you select your own skins.
Yes, this took a long time. And the results are not perfect. But I like it a lot. If I do another one--my 1998 model 100 could use it--I will do better.
I should mention that I deliberately added another layer of leather over the existing leather--I wanted a thicker steering wheel.
There are a bunch more photos in my album: Leather Work
For my '93 model 80 I wanted to try to do the leather work myself. So I went to the junkyard and bought a decent wheel and got it put on the truck, taking the old, sad leather-covered one off. First I tried cleaning and re-sealing the old leather. The results were 'meah..' So I then stared at this thing in my apartment for a month or two. I've made things out of leather before, and I have the punches and thread and so forth, but the shape of a steering wheel is rather daunting.
Finally one weekend, fortified by a couple of beers, I just started:
I taught myself to do the 'baseball' stitch by watching a bunch of youtube videos and then making mistakes. I will skip a lot (and do a longer post later in a separate thread), but here is the finished results:
It was very satisfying to do this. The wheel is going on El Wahsh now. Will post a photo of the wheel in-situ. BTW, this is camel leather. I drove to the leather tannery set up by the Abu Dhabi government and its a pretty cool and modern facility. And they let you select your own skins.
Yes, this took a long time. And the results are not perfect. But I like it a lot. If I do another one--my 1998 model 100 could use it--I will do better.
I should mention that I deliberately added another layer of leather over the existing leather--I wanted a thicker steering wheel.
There are a bunch more photos in my album: Leather Work
Very nice work, John!
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That’s a great job you did. Thanks for sharing this. I think I’m going to try what you did, I’ve done a lot of leather work in other things before.I've had a couple of different adventures with steering wheels. The first thing I tried was buying a real leather cover on amazon for my model 100 rustbucket that requires stitching it on. It takes 2-3 hours (at least that is what it took me) but the results were overall pretty good. I did find that it is absolutely necessary to glue to the old steering wheel--otherwise it never quite feels right.
For my '93 model 80 I wanted to try to do the leather work myself. So I went to the junkyard and bought a decent wheel and got it put on the truck, taking the old, sad leather-covered one off. First I tried cleaning and re-sealing the old leather. The results were 'meah..' So I then stared at this thing in my apartment for a month or two. I've made things out of leather before, and I have the punches and thread and so forth, but the shape of a steering wheel is rather daunting.
Finally one weekend, fortified by a couple of beers, I just started:
I taught myself to do the 'baseball' stitch by watching a bunch of youtube videos and then making mistakes. I will skip a lot (and do a longer post later in a separate thread), but here is the finished results:
It was very satisfying to do this. The wheel is going on El Wahsh now. Will post a photo of the wheel in-situ. BTW, this is camel leather. I drove to the leather tannery set up by the Abu Dhabi government and its a pretty cool and modern facility. And they let you select your own skins.
Yes, this took a long time. And the results are not perfect. But I like it a lot. If I do another one--my 1998 model 100 could use it--I will do better.
I should mention that I deliberately added another layer of leather over the existing leather--I wanted a thicker steering wheel.
There are a bunch more photos in my album: Leather Work
And not to try to take business away from CruiserYard, I've actually got two spare model 80 steering wheels at the moment, and I will be in the DC area in mid-May and someone who needs one can pick one up for the price of letting me bore them for a bit. If anyone wants one, just let me know. I'd prefer to give them away to someone from the forum. I don't want to store them! (I won't ship--have to leave the business side to CruiserYard!)
(And thanks for the kind words, Roe (and PAT)! And good luck. Everything is on Amazon. I will post a list of what I bought, tools wise. And you do need the right tools for this.)
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The photo is a little misleading. On the LC wheels I've seen the four stalks that go outward from the hub are all leather covered. The cover they are showing is basically just a strip of leather that goes around the wheel. Available from Amazon for a few bucks. The result is fine, but not original looking IMHO. I did this on my 1999 rust bucket ebay mistake truck.
Here's the one I used, but if I did it over I would have picked another color.
And here's a few photos:
Here's the one I used, but if I did it over I would have picked another color.
And here's a few photos:
I have never been inside any 80 with airbags (I guess at some point Oz market ones got some SRS) but in mine I've got this steering wheel which seems to come in two different versions - one is polyurethane (what mine appears to be) and one is polypropylene. The urethane ones have a higher cost.
Being the original wheel, the top hemisphere of it has a lot of cracking and it's just starting to have bits of it fall off after 26 yrs of Aussie sun. I always cover the dash and steering wheel with a towel when I park to help keep sun off it, but age itself makes plastics degrade.
Being the original wheel, the top hemisphere of it has a lot of cracking and it's just starting to have bits of it fall off after 26 yrs of Aussie sun. I always cover the dash and steering wheel with a towel when I park to help keep sun off it, but age itself makes plastics degrade.
