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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Australia
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Removal of original steering wheel - help
I could use some help in trying to remove the existing steering wheel on my 71 Cheyenne truck. I want to replace it with an after market wheel. I have removed the nut and washer that retains the wheel and have had a 3 jaw puller set up on the wheel trying to dislodge it. I have had some considerable weight on her and have tapped the pullers center bolt to try and jar it loose off the spline, but to no avail. Has anybody else had similar problems? Is there something I'm missing. Is there some sort of hidden grub screw or something else that is preventing this wheel from coming loose?
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Tacoma WA
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Re: Removal of original steering wheel - help
There is no hidden screw or anything like that. Just 30 years of being stuck in one place. A steering wheel puller is the preferred tool to remove it. Usually available at auto parts stores for under $10. Comes with several long bolts to fit other brands as well as GM.
Good luck - Bob
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Re: Removal of original steering wheel - help
try these guys, you can't beat the price.
http://www.autozone.com/in_our_store...ring_wheel.htm
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Australia
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Re: Removal of original steering wheel - help
Thanks guys,
I'll try a local shop for the puller! Harry |
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Cereal Killer
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Montgomery, Alabama
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Re: Removal of original steering wheel - help
A friend of mine tought me a cool trick years ago...........it really helps to have 2 people...you need a small ball peen hammer and a larger hammer. Rest the small end of the small hammer into the dimple in the end of the column shaft now use two hands to pull pressure on the steering wheel(like your trying to pull it off) then get someone to hold the little hammer and hit it with the larger hammer.....Has always worked for me and never damaged anything.
Good Luck Mark |
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its all about the +6 inches
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Hilliard Ohio
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Re: Removal of original steering wheel - help
I did it that way for years also, however, these columns are a crappy design, and doing that can damage the lower bearings.
Been there, done that. |
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Cereal Killer
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Montgomery, Alabama
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Re: Removal of original steering wheel - help
Thanks for the info Longhorn.......i should have prefaced that i havent used this trick on a 67-72.
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Glen Allen, VA
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Re: Removal of original steering wheel - help
A steering wheel puller is not expensive and to me is not an optional tool. Every tool box should have one.
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: South Mississippi
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Re: Removal of original steering wheel - help
I had to put the steering wheel puller in a serious bind and then use a 2# hammer and hit the end of the puller and it popped off. Before that I pulled a grade 5 bolt in half with the puller, so it was either the hammer or my torch.
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: East Sooke B.C. Canada
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Re: Removal of original steering wheel - help
I have always pulled steering wheels of by hand
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: hamilton,ohio,usa
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Re: Removal of original steering wheel - help
broke my nose one summer taking mine off, forgot Andy's trick about putting the nut back on a few threads.
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its all about the +6 inches
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Hilliard Ohio
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Re: Removal of original steering wheel - help
Oh hell... you HAD to mention that.
3 years ago at Mike's first Ohio Board Meet, I sold some one a grant GT wheel. I can never remember his screen name. Sorry man. Anyways, I installed the wheel, but had to pop it off again for one reason or another. It's been a few years, I don't remember what it was, but I decided to jerk the wheel off. It wasn't budging. He starts heading up to mike's shop to get the puller. Well, stubborn @ss Andy keeps jerking on it. I give a real hard pull, as I am pulling back, I remember, "OH CRAP.... THERE"S NO NUT ON THE SHAFT!!!!!!!!" Well, the wheel hit me in the forhead, which wasn't too bad, but when my head slammed into the back glass...THAT'S what almost knocked me out. I don't remember him coming back up... I dunno if I blacked out, or if I actually got knocked out... either way, I had a headache for at least 3 days after that. You GOTTA go to board meets...with some one like me there, you are GARANTEED a good laugh. Like the POR incident the following year. That's another story for another time... I'll just say, NEVER fall asleep in a car, with a can of POR spilled in the trunk. |
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Lafayette Georgia
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