Steering Wheel Removal (I can't take away the steering wheel)

Hello, I need your helt to remove the steering wheel.
I tried yesterday, I remove the horn screw and after that I don't know what to do, I put oil to help. Do I need a special tool?
Bruno

 

Re: I can't take away the steering wheel

I forgot to say tjat it it is a steering whell of a '65 cj5 V6.
Bruno.

 

Re: I can't take away the steering wheel

i have never successfully removed one with out damaging it....
i tried my best, i was told to use a air hammer on the shaft with the nut on to save the treads and it should walk off, no luck, so i took a hammer to the back of the wheel... it came off in about 50 pieces......

 

Re: I can't take away the steering wheel

If you have a torch with a fine enough flame to it, you can try heating just the shaft. Repeat several times, applying whatever penetrating oil you have inbetween heatings. The idea is that the expanding of the shaft will "crush" whatever junk (rust, dirt, etc) and help loosen it when cooled down.

You can also make some sort of wooden form to fit under the wheel with a couple of arms to go through the spokes. Run another piece across those arms, (a "sandwich" with the steering wheel in the middle...) and a bolt to come down on the end of the shaft. Tightening the bolt should help pull the wheel off.

In my opinion, you *should* be able to get the wheel off without damaging it, but it may take a lot of patience.

Good luck!

 

Re: I can't take away the steering wheel

http://www.science.smith.edu/%7Eejensen/willys/cj2a/steeringwheel.html

 

Where are you located? maybe someone local can help, Bill

 

:iagree: That's my puller. Surprising how well it really worked.

 

Yes I am from France close to Paris.
I'll try to make a wood extractor.
Thanks a lot for your help
Bruno

 

After soaking it a couple of days heat it up with a tourch or heat gun then take a CO2 fire extingusher or Co2 bottle and make a nozzle of some tipe to direct the liquid gas directly into the hole in the shaft FREEZING the shaft which willshrink it letting it slide off i removed the wheel off my 59 for the first time using this method last month with no problem
I used No2 instead of co2 but any kind of liquid gas will work. I wouldnt recomend propane but it will work. Just my $.02