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Re: HELP Steering wheel removal

To: Jim Rowan <jimrowan@uic.edu>
Subject: Re: HELP Steering wheel removal
From: Ulix Goettsch <ulix@u.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 09:23:42 -0800 (PST)
Cc: spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
In-reply-to: <3.0.32.19980401104109.0068cd44@tigger.cc.uic.edu>
Reply-to: Ulix Goettsch <ulix@u.washington.edu>
Sender: owner-spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
Jim,
on my 67, I remove the plinth so I can get to the back of the wheel and
hit it with a punch and hammer close to the column.  I don't know if that
is possible on a Bugeye.
Ulix


On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Jim Rowan wrote:

> Try as I have for the past week I cannot get the steering wheel off the
> column.
> The large retaining nut spun off easily but the wheel won't separate from
> the column, the splined area of the wheel/column must be fused. I really
> don't want to use brute force because I know how fragile 40 year old
> steering wheels can be. I would just as soon leave the wheel on but I am
> currently trying to get the horn to work. 
> Conventional steering wheel pullers won't work because there is nothing to
> grab on to once the nut is removed?
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Cheers,
> Jim Rowan
> 60 Sprite 
> 

    Ulix                                                    __/__,__        
.......................................................... (_o____o_)....
                                                           '67 Sprite


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