>From the looks of the wheel, he did not need to be so careful. He could
have heated it or cut it off.... But the practice with dismantling 50 years
of rust and Crap, will benefit him as he proceeds. Welcome to the club. ;-)
Ira Erbs
IT Consultant
Portland, OR
sent from my Droid, please excuse typos and random self corrections because
my phone has It's own ideas about what word I meant to write
On Nov 30, 2011 11:18 PM, "Alan Seigrist" <healey.nut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Eberhard -
>
> I am now pleased to officially present you with your official training
> certificate, "Austin Healey Repair - Expert Technician."
>
> You successfully completed the most challenging of tests for the
> certificate, of using a large lead hammer and gigantic plumbing pliers to
> fix your valuable classic car - using only the finest engineered German
> machine tools. As my father always told me "You must always use the
> correct tool for the job!" Indeed you have, and recorded the procedure (in
> photographs) for posterity.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Alan
>
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 5:10 AM, Eberhard Pietzsch <
> mail at eberhard-pietzsch.de
> > wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > many thanks to those of you who replied to my posting.
> > I finally managed to remove my steering wheel. Here the
> > solution, if you are interested:
> >
> > - Take a really large pipe wrench or a equally large
> > open-end spanner (the pipe wrench might be cheaper)
> > http://www.eberhard-pietzsch.**de/healey/t3.jpg<
> http://www.eberhard-pietzsch.de/healey/t3.jpg>
> >
> > - Put it behind the steering wheel. Try to protect the
> > aluminium wheel against the steel of the wrench using
> > some old cloth or similar
> > http://www.eberhard-pietzsch.**de/healey/t4.jpg<
> http://www.eberhard-pietzsch.de/healey/t4.jpg>
> >
> > - Take a respectable hammer
> > http://www.eberhard-pietzsch.**de/healey/t5.jpg<
> http://www.eberhard-pietzsch.de/healey/t5.jpg>
> >
> > - Strongly hit the wrench from behind (it might help
> > to close both eyes)
> > http://www.eberhard-pietzsch.**de/healey/t6.jpg<
> http://www.eberhard-pietzsch.de/healey/t6.jpg>
> >
> > That's it,
> > Eberhard
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