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My father has offered to purchase me a steering wheel for Christmas. My original is really rough and currently has a cover on it. It is very unappealing visually to me. I looked on ebay and found a wood XKE style but the add says up to 1972 and no hub for later Jaguars. My budget is $200-$250US. I would like a wood 3 spoke style. I did read on an older post about an XJS steering wheel that bolts directly on but not on ebay. Suggestions?
If you want wood and spokes, check the Tourist Trophy wheels sold by Moss Motors online. These wheels are high quality and in your price range, they also sell the hub kit for the Series 3. The wheels are offered in thick or thin grip, and in wood or leather.
Sarc, me too, I installed a 15 in. thick-grip, black leather, black spokes Tourist Trophy in my 1965 Jaguar S-type and the quality of fit and finish leaves the Nardis and Motolitas eating dust !
Momo makes an all wooden wheel that looks pretty good.
I have one on hand, and could offer it to you for about a third of your budget.
That would include the center hub and mounting hardware...
The XJS wheel mentioned was probably the 89 Sport wheel. It was only offered for a brief period on the XJS, and also for a short period on the non US late Series 3 XJ12 (or V12 Vanden Plas)....
I second that wheel from the 89 XJS. I have it on mine and felt it transformed the steering feel while staying very close to originality. Nice part is that it took about 30 seconds to swap over!
I have the 1989 XJS wheel presently and I like it a lot. I found one for $114 on Ebay in mint condition....not sure f that's too much or if I got a bargain...but it seems like a bargain to me, at least.
For wood wheels my favorite remains the classic Nardi wheel as seen in the pic of my 1987 Series III. Nice ones come up on Ebay for $100-$200 BUT the tricky part is getting a Jaguar mounting hub....not always easy to find and might put you over budget.
Mine came with the momo with the horrendous lump of wood in the center
It still didn't look right to me after removing the lump, not in keeping with the character of the Series 3
So I had it covered in black leather. Way better now, but not too happy with the poor workmanship, I could have done a better job than the "professional"
Momo makes some really stylish wheels.
Here is a picture of my Momo Zebrano (no longer made)installed on my 86 Xj6 VDP.
Love the wheel but it did take some time and a bit of fabrication to get the wheel to be positioned a the the right place so I could reach the control stalks with my short fingers.
Whenever someone sits in the driver seat and grasps the wheel, they always seem to get this little grin.
David Boger is right .. Momo makes some really stylish wheels. Here is a picture of my Momo Zebrano (no longer made)installed on my 86 Xj6 VDP. Love the wheel but it did take some time and a bit of fabrication to get the wheel to be positioned a the the right place so I could reach the control stalks with my short fingers.
yes, the problem is the length of the Momo Hub/Boss, about ½ inch too long, so it keeps the wheel a bit too far from the stalk switches in the XJ.
I have the same issue with my Momo Olympic 15" inch black leather thick grip wheel, ( no longer made either ), which I installed around 1992, one of these days I'll get it to a machine shop to see if the boss length can be shaved without affecting the spline.
It probably can be made "thinner" on a surface grinder.
Don't know what the back side of the wheel looks like, though.
And, how long would the remaining splined hub be?
Enough to insure a firm bite on the shaft?
Old story: My boyhood pal, Billy, had a really neat 27 T Ford.
he took his dad for a ride to include a mountain road in El Paso known as Scenic Drive. oh, oh, the steering wheel came off !!! the nut securing it came adrift. Billy was able to slam the wheel back on with no loss of control !!!
The T's wheel was secured to the shaft by a key way and an acorn nut.
they pulled over, found the nut and returned all to the way Henry's guys built it.
I had one like the one you were looking at.... sold it. Too hot to touch
when the car had been sitting in the sun.
Got a all wood three spoke one from Grant, you can choose your own center cap, love the smaller OD as the stock "school bus" sized wheels are too large.
Carl, you are thinking of the side of the hub right behind the steering wheel spokes? I am thinking of shaving off the side that goes into and out of the steering column, the opposite end of the hub. Roger, the leather has not become that hot in my Momo wheel. I bet Hatrod didn't expect a catwalk of 20 thousand different steering wheels in answer to his thread question!
Jose, if I remember right (been a few years) the original Jag steering wheel that was on my Jag, had cracked in several places . So to overcome the new problem of "steering wheel position" with the Momo, I did not use the regular Momo adapter that you can get for Jag steering column to Momo wheel, rather I sliced up the old Jag wheel !! - kept just the center with the spline.
I took the " factory base with the spline" and I machined it to get a flat surface. Cut off the spokes etc and cut drilled and tapped the base to fit the Momo pattern. Screwed the Momo to the modified Jag base. Everything is, as it was, with the original wheel except the old splined base now has the Momo attached to it .
Bolted the Momo wheel to the Jag base. Works sweet !!
12-25-2015, 12:44 PM
Steering wheel upgrade on my 82 XJ6?
