1948 GMC - Steering Wheel, Column and Gearbox


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		To sand and smooth out the putty, I started off with the rotary tool and a small drum sander bit. Being careful not to get to close, I stopped in time to finish smoothing out the putty with a utility knife blade. I found the knife blade very useful in the final shaping. The blade would remove the needed putty but not harm the existing rubber. After scrapping, a few hours with fine sandpaper.
		After a few coats of epoxy primer and some final sanding, two coats of high gloss paint was applied. The final color is a dark brown that will match the seats, headliner, door panels and so forth. Not a standard color for this year but I think it will be a nice touch.
		It was just over two years ago that the steering gear box and column was taken out of the truck, cleaned, primed and placed into storage. It is now time for it to go back into the truck now that the cab is finished.
		After first sanding with 220 grit paper to roughen up the two year old primer, it was prepared for a coat of sealer. From there the gear box and the first 8 or so inches up the column was painted black.
		Instead of following the example that was first done with this truck back 60 some odd years ago where they painted the column the same color all the way to the gear box, I decided to change it up a little bit. For me, I wanted the color change to take place at the same point the column passed through the firewall. This way, the interior color of the cab would not be seen running down the column in the engine compartment.
		After wrapping up the gear box and taping off a line where the column passed through the firewall, the first coat of interior paint went on the column. Strange thing, the paint would not adhere to part of the column. I say strange because this is going on over the sealer that was just applied a few hours earlier. The only thing I could think of was there was something on the rage I used to wipe down with paint prep or that the paint prep had not completely dried.
		For what ever reason this happened, the only fix was to let the paint dry, sand off the bad area, clean and then re-shot.

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