Had to work for it, but got the steering wheel off!

John P.

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It sure was not easy, but I got the steering wheel off the A without breaking anything! After soaking the nut for a couple of weeks, I got it off with a 6-point socket on a 1/2" breaker bar, while using a large pipe wrench clamped onto the steering wheel's hub, that was braced with a 2x6 planted on top of the transmission. Then I took two 3-jaw pullers and used the links from each hooked together on 1 puller without any of the jaws, that I hooked to each of the 3 spokes up against the hub with 3 bolts. Then I used the 2x6 to brace one of the wheel's spokes against the side of the torque tube. Then using the breaker bar with another 6-point socket, I cranked down on the center of the hub with the puller being darn sure to keep it centered on the hub by surrounding the pullers hub with the steering wheel's nut.
 
Good Job! It feels good to work brain power with muscle power. Congratulations!
Just wondering if you tried heating the nut first.
Dell
 
I thought about heating it, but I have a bad track record that usually turns it into something with holes.
 
Are you planning on keeping the wheel you took off? If not, the two minute drill to remove them is simply use a sawsall and cut them parallel to the shaft, hit them one lick with a chisel in the slot and they are off.

Gordo
 
I tossed the wheel in the scrap steel dumpster this morning, but the method you just described is what I am going to try on an Oliver that has just the hub left on it.
 

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