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Trac 09-15-2012 15:10:18 76.6.55.223 Report to Moderator	sounds like you might need some heat a little propane torch but i think the TE is plastic so it might not work don't heat the shaft or threads just the out side of wheel to make it expand off the shaft. [Reply]   [No Email]
DON TX 09-15-2012 17:16:28 76.196.6.124 Report to Moderator	Re: TE 20 steering wheel in reply to Trac, 09-15-2012 15:10:18   Yeah, I'm mentally preparing for that. I'm boiling the gas tank with muratic acid now. Hope I don't overdo it. Not so much rust as it is old gas residue. DON TX [Reply]  [No Email]
Bruce(OR) 09-16-2012 09:36:10 97.115.28.252 Report to Moderator	Re: TE 20 steering wheel in reply to DON TX, 09-15-2012 17:16:28   The problem with acid is upon rinsing, the rust starts immediatley. The best one I saw was a fella who tied his tank to the rearwheel on another machine and drove it around. Filled with steel shot it will get it real clean pretty fast. I did my tank in the electrolysis tank and then just put it back into service. I should get a magnet suspended from a brass chain and secure it to the fill cap. Rust will swirl arouind and the magnet should catch it, No? [Reply]  [No Email]
DON TX 09-16-2012 12:44:12 76.196.6.124 Report to Moderator	Re: TE 20 steering wheel in reply to Bruce(OR), 09-16-2012 09:36:10   The magnet is a good idea. The crud in this tank looks more like varnish. I took it to the carwash today and got a lot of it out. I used the degreaser and loosened it up pretty good. Waiting for the rain to stop to finish rinsing it out. The acid didn't do much to what ever is in there. I may have diluted it too much. I used 1 cup of acid to 10 gals. water. I spun a tank from my 8N on my tractor once and did a good job with b.b.s. It was a lot of work getting the tank to stay on the tire and get the b.b.s and rust dust out. DON TX [Reply]  [No Email]