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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 12 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 12 | I'm disassembling my 51 Chev and I can't get my steering wheel off. It looks like it's just on a splined shaft. Any ideas, is there a special tool? I've been tapping on the back side and cracked the wheel!! Thanks | | | | | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 679 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2006 Posts: 679 | Here is a previous discussion about the same topic. You can find some good info there. I did a search for the terms "steering wheel puller" and found several hits. Welcome to Stovebolt! Bill | | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,262 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,262 | | | | | | Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 96 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 96 | A wheel puller makes it sooooo easy . | | | | | Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 482 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 482 | Wheel puller is of course the proper way but an old boy from Tennessee showed me a trick. Have someone pull up on the wheel. Place a brass hammer on the shaft and give it a good shot with another hammer. The steering wheel pops right off every time. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 4,109 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 4,109 | i got mine off by running the nut up to cover the threads and using my knees as leverage from below and striking the nut with a small hand sledge hammer. ron
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| | | | | Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 2,985 Crusty Old Sarge | | Crusty Old Sarge Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 2,985 | Give it a shot of PB Blaster and let it set, use a puller if you can so you won't mess up the threads on the shaft. Put some tention on the puller and hit it with a brass dreft and hammer. Should come right loose.
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| | | | | Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 482 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 482 | Tiny,
YOu prolly already know this but be careful hitting one hammer with another hammer. The heads are tempered and they can shattered when struck together, sending fragments out like shrapnel. One of the hammers, prefferably the one coming in contact with the threaded shaft, should be brass. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 12 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 12 | Thank you all......I got it off. | | |
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