Thread: pulling a 48 ford stering wheel

Tweet

We do the same trick to remove steering wheels from boats. Some come right off and some are corroded in place, so we remove the nut, soak em with blaster, and leave the nut partly on so the wheel doesn't come up and smack you in the teeth when it frees up. We have one guy pull up on it while another uses a block of wood or brass punch to smack the nut. They usually pop off after a rap or two.

I've done it by myself too by putting my knees under the wheel to exert upward pressure while I hit the nut. Once it pops off you can remove the nut the rest of the way. On ones that are really frozen it takes about 15 minutes to make a tool to shock them off. You simply weld an old 3/4 inch socket to an old end that goes in your air chisel, put a 3/4 inch nut inside the socket so the socket will only go so far onto the steering wheel nut, loosen the nut a little, have someone pull up while you vibrate the heck out of it, and it will come off this way, no question.

Don