I've done it this way myself. I used the steel hammer square on the nut struck
by another hammer. I have also bent the shaft doing it. Doesn't take much.
Grant
50 Chevy 3100
52 GMC 150
"Hanlon, Bill" wrote:
> Sometimes, you can get lucky and use a friend instead
> of a steering wheel puller. Won't work with steering
> wheels that are seriously stuck, but I have used this
> method successfully on some wheels.
>
> 1. Remove nut on upper end of steering shaft.
> 2. Re-install nut just far enough that its top
> is flush with the end of the shaft.
> 3. Have one person sit in driver's seat, put upward
> pressure on bottom portion of steering wheel
> at about the 5 and 7 o'clock position with his
> thighs and use his hands to pull up on the top
> portion of the steering wheel at about the 10
> and 2 o'clock position.
> 4. Second person strikes the nut and end of steering
> shaft sharply with a brass mallet. If it doesn't
> come loose after a few strikes, give up, send
> wife/girl friend to FLAPS to get a real puller
> and have a cold beverage of choice while she is
> gone.
>
> 5. DONT USE A STEEL HAMMER. YOU'LL BUGGER UP THE NUT
> AND/OR THREADS AND BLAME ME FOR IT.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rlcokc@aol.com [mailto:Rlcokc@aol.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 1:00 PM
> To: oletrucks@autox.team.net
> Subject: [oletrucks] removal of steering wheel-1941
>
> don't have the old tool called for to pull the steering wheel-any ideas for
> a substitute?
> rod cook
> 41 pu
> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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