okokok... STEERING WHEEL.

Alright, you may be aware that some mechanaprick re-installed my steering wheel crooked after fixing the horn.

I have now ruined 2 steering wheel pullers (and almost stripped the threaded holes in the stock wheel... I think) and can't the bastard off. I am looking to replace it with a grant wheel, and thought I might cut the old one off, but it is an original RS wheel in fairly decent condition so I'd rather not destroy it.

Am I missing something, is there a lock collar or pin or something that I'm not taking off that is not letting the wheel come off?

It's a 70 maro, although the column could be from any year know all the other frankenstein chop jobs I've discovered lately. The steering wheel is a bona-fide 70 RS deluxe, so I'm inclined to believe the column is original too. I just can't get the damned thing off.

Any suggestions?

(PS taking it someplace like a machine shop won't work... the interior is gutted right now, in the middle of redoing the whole thing.)

Most columns just have a ohm style clip at the top of the splined area of the shaft that the clip clamps onto to hold the wheel.

hmmm... mine only has a large nut that goes over the wheel and the spline area. Every thing I read says that once you take that nut off, the wheel should come off with a puller relatively easily. I was thinking that maybe there's a snap ring or something I'm missing that's sompleace I haven't looked. Maybe put a little heat on it or something?

I'm about ready to cut the sumbich off there.

try put WD40 all over that damn thing.. if that still doesnt work your mechanic prolly fucked something up..

I may try putting WD on it several times over the course of the next couple days.

This is REALLY pissing me off. The damned thing is on sideways... can't see half the gauges, AND since I'm redoing everything and getting a new wheel anyway I need it off there.

Has anyone tried using a gear puller to get one off??? Maybe it'll have some more balls to it than a SW puller?

I have experienced a couple of steering wheels that were like they were welded in place and difficult to remove.
A trick that worked for me was to loosen the nut and back it off to where the threads are protected, grab the wheel and pull on it with all you've got and smack the nut with a ball pein hammer a couple of times. the one's i was working on came right off.

The damned thing is on sideways... can't see half the gauges,

Now see, that I'd kind of find useful, especially for those nights after kick'n back a few. :thumbsup:

Kinda like bowling, your hook gets better the more you're able to stumble towards the gutter :lol2:

In all seriousness, have you tried to 'shock' the thread at all as the above eluded to?

Gear puller, why not, that's what I used on mine :dunno: Just make sure you use some quality bolts that thread in.

worst comes to worse heat it up, but not while its still soaked in wd-40, might loose a eyebrow or 2, but its amazing the stuff you can take off with heat, me and my buddy took a nut off right over a cotter pin with heat, we heated it up with a torch and and loosened like no other!!! it was the coolest thing ever, there wasnt a cotterpin hole when we finished and the nut was fine

hmmmm.... going to try the thread shock thing over the holidays... an extra set of hands will be around.

Then I'll try the WD..

Last resort is the heat I guess... I'd hate to ruin the wheel...