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Re: steering wheel removal.
You need a puller, and fairly long bolts for it due to the design of the wheel.
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Re: steering wheel removal.
That's what I thought :re) . Where can I find one or does somebody have a home-spun idea to make one???
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Re: steering wheel removal.
Any of the chain stores should have one.
The one that I picked up happened to have 2 bolts that were just barely long enough.
This is a case where a better/nicer puller might hinder you because some better/nicer ones have 3 extra prongs for 3 bolts (anyone ever see a wheel with 3 puller holes?) which further complicate matters.
Here is a link to a good one that should work,
http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/product.do?BV_UseBVCookie=Yes&vertical=TOOL&pid=00941833000
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Re: steering wheel removal.
A puller with more than two holes is meant for pulling a harmonic balancer. Although they work just fine for steering wheels. Thats all I've ever used for pulling steering wheels.
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Re: steering wheel removal.
Hey...can someone tell me the correct thread pitch for the two bolt-holes in the steering wheel, for the puller? My puller doesn't have the right ones...they've been crossthreading in. I got two off like that, but now the bolts have no threads left, and I really need to get the correct bolts, for future use. I actually took a steering wheel into the local farm supply store but they didn't have any bolts that matched up.
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Re: steering wheel removal.
Keith, I just had to go out and see what bolt fit. I did get a 5/16 coarse thread to screw in about 5 or 6 threads before it got real tight. I tried a fine thread and it was definately wrong. I even tried metric and none of them were close. I seem to remember having ran into this on many different cars over the years, the bolts just don't thread in easily. I think the 5/16 coarse will work, you just have to force them a little. I ran it in and out a couple times and it doesn't look like it is ruining the threads or anything. It even went back in fairly easy to the point I had forced it to the time before.
I have ran into special threads before but never on a Ford. I have ran into them on old Harley Davidson engines and Stanley Planes had their own thread pitch too. Both of those were so far off that there was nothing even close.
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Re: steering wheel removal.
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A puller with more than two holes is meant for pulling a harmonic balancer. Although they work just fine for steering wheels. Thats all I've ever used for pulling steering wheels.
Jared
Too small for a harmonic balencer puller. One of the guys at the dealer loaned it to me, after I tried my harmonic balencer puller to no avail. Perhaps it was some sort of special puller but it sure looked like a fancy steering wheel puller (and thats what he thought it was)
Anyhowsssssssssssss
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Re: steering wheel removal.
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...I did get a 5/16 coarse thread to screw in about 5 or 6 threads before it got real tight...
Yeah, that's what I've been using too...I could get it to go in a few turns but then it was too tight to go in any further. Normally it's just enough to pop the wheel loose, but I've got one here that I can't get that to work on. I'll attempt to thread the bolts in to where they won't go any more, but when I put pressure on them with the puller, they pull out of the hole. Well, I'll try again and see if I can't at least make it work. Thanks J.B.
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Re: steering wheel removal.
I will get into my tools that are in storage and get a thread pich guage to see if I can get a measurement. Also if any of you have a snap-on dealer you might check with him. I think their wheel puller kit comes with bolts that fit. I might also try running a 5/16 coarse tap in the hole first to see what it does. I now seem to remember that I had a couple bolts in my accumulated puller set that fit and then some gomer borrowed it and brought it back with those two messed up.
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Re: steering wheel removal.
OK, so over the weekend it became my top priority to get this darned steering wheel off the column I have to ship to a customer. I grabbed a spare steering wheel and headed down to the local auto parts store looking for the correct bolts. The holes in the steering wheel only LOOK like they're coarse thread. Out of desperation I grabbed a fine-thread bolt and it threaded right in! I grabbed a pen and jotted down the specs, so you all need to jot this down in your little book of notes somewhere too. The bolt you need is a 5/16" SAE Fine (24 teeth per inch), about three inches long. Get several for spares, and grab a couple that are a little shorter, too. The '67-'70 3-spoke steering wheels don't need a longer bolt, but the '71-'72 2-spoke wheels need longer bolts to clear the deeper spokes.
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